Photography is my life. My first pictures were made with a Kodak Instamatic with those fancy flash cubes. Later I borrowed my dad's analogue SLR and somehow ended as the only user. I had fun developing photographs on my own and experimenting in the school club dark room. In my early 20s the first digital cameras came out and after getting over my skepticism I started experimenting with an Olympus C4040 Zoom. I ended up using Canons digital cameras (starting with EOS 350D up to my recent R6 Mark II). Not that I'm a fanboy, it's convinient to stick to the user experience you already know. I've been playing around with Olympus OM-D and some Nikon models.
The Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV is really neat. Small and lightweight - easy to carry. Even with the default objective it's perfect for street photography and even portraits.
My life's choices and opportunities didn't offer me to become a professional photographer (in the sense of making photographs for a living). On the other hand did this give me the opportunity to only work on projects that I wanted to, because I always had a job that fed me well.
I work for cash, obviously ... sometimes for free, but always ... for fun. For the laughs. And for the happy smiles of those who thought they weren't photogenic.