> I went from being a UK merchant ship captain to working as a software developer.
That's one hell of a story. How did you end up in the trade to begin with? How long it take for you get promoted to captain? What kind of cargo did you typically carry? How big was your crew? What was the largest ship you captained? What are farthest points you've sailed to in all cardinal directions? Were you still you still operating with paper maps and sextants by the time of your captaincy or was GPS common on ships by that point?
That's one hell of a story. How did you end up in the trade to begin with? How long it take for you get promoted to captain? What kind of cargo did you typically carry? How big was your crew? What was the largest ship you captained? What are farthest points you've sailed to in all cardinal directions? Were you still you still operating with paper maps and sextants by the time of your captaincy or was GPS common on ships by that point?