My trading journey? Played with shares on and off all my adult...

My trading journey?
Played with shares on and off all my adult life, becoming a little more active since 2000. However, limited by funds, worklife and...inexperience or lack of knowledge about the dogs I was playing with.
2016 saw me start trading full-time, my sole means of support.
Made lots of losses, but never anything big....lots of gains, again, nothing big until making the decision to back up the trolley on a few trades...WPI WFE as examples.
Research was the key, except when covid came along....then, you just bought any junk that stood still long enough.
Times are harder now, back to researching the mongrels.
All in all, a great lifestyle, though somewhat at the beckoning of the screen, but funding a comfortable life, despite still doing the dumb things a trader does.
It's become a little more mechanical, less emotion and somewhat bigger conviction in dollar terms...
8 years full time, where has the time gone??