20 years ago I'd hang out on this site while I was stuck in my dead-end telephone tech support job working for Dell and Gateway. I'd play a meta-game where I'd try to avoid taking as many phone calls as possible while browsing the 1.0 web and hanging out on sites like Newgrounds. Life was miserable. I'd watch Flash animations and wait for the clock to tick down. Then I'd go home, mentally exhausted from people screaming and threatening me on the phone for 8 hours, collapse, sleep, and do it again the next day.
Now I draw beautiful girls. Life is pretty good.