When I was about eleven, I used money from my allowance and lawn-mowing jobs to save up and purchase a record player. I subsequently used all of my funds to start a record collection. I had a sizable collection and encyclopaedic knowledge of all the various musical genres by the time I was 18 years old. That led to me getting a part-time job at a radio station while I was a student, which led to getting a job in the music section of a library, which led to getting a job as an IT specialist in the library, which led to my current profession in IT. Aside from that, my adult personality was shaped by all of that musical exposure. That ancient turntable owes a lot of what I am now.