I spent 45 years in tech as a support person and then as a sales engineer, about half and half. Now I am retired, not idle, but free from teams meetings.
You can see one of the non-tech projects I did, this fixer-upper is from about 25 years ago: http://www.zedian.biz
If you are looking for Greg L. Turnquist the coder/author he is here: http://www.greglturnquist.com