You've gotta be in Australia because I had a cx-5 2014 2.2 TD and it was a nightmare. I'll never buy a Mazda again. You know its bad when years after the warranty has expired Mazda are fixing head gaskets or outright replacing engines for free.
I work in a global company with people in Asia, Australia, North America and across Europe. My team are all in NA and I'm in Australia. I just get up early to maximise cross over, two morning meetings for me a week. Works pretty well but I do get up/stay up occasionally for 2am meetings. Apart from all hands there's no pressure to do so. Hardest part is arranging a meeting between a European, American and myself - someone is going to be out of normal hours. Fully remote rather than "remote but this timezone" is great.
Thats a sombre take. My father in law was a professional photographer for 30 years. His experience was very much that everyone can take a decent photo today. But he saw diminishing opportunities as early as the days of small point and shoot cameras. Today, they're not used as much because commodity DSLRs are relatively cheap and dont require much if any training. Are we in the days of the Nikon Coolpix? Maybe, its definitely something to consider.
Python is a good first language. Big community. Easy to start, can start without OOP or even functions - just a script. Large ecosystem from web to AI. Automating the boring stuff type work has real world application and is a decent glide path from learning programming to actually enjoying it.
I want new programmers to learn to enjoy it before trudging through theory and patterns. "Read what you love until you love to read" sings true here.
