Or, the adrenaline triggers me to tell my boss I can't do this any more, get up and walk out of a client meeting and not answer any calls from work for a few days.

You're probably about my age. I was just late getting into computers. First attempt at university was dumb terminals connected to some Unix host. Failed everything and dropped out. Went back a few years later and had 8086 based PCs booting DOS off diskettes.

Took a while, but I found "me". Slackware 3.1 was 3 or 4 boxes of floppies if I remember correctly. A full box, or more maybe, for X!

fvwm2?

I must have a pretty warped sense of humour.. haven't had a good laugh like that in ages.