How old were you when you first soldered?

How old were you when you first soldered?

What was it?

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14/15
Honestly I have no idea. Probably a DC jack.

17, for a high school physics class project.

Haven't done it since then and I'm 30 now

Never soldered in my life
Should I even bother learning it?

16, repairing an arcade cabinet

12, attached carbon rods with copper code and a dc wall jack. Made arced the electricity between them, damn near blinded myself

17, fixed a hand-me-down monitor that had a blown capacitor. Then deconstructed a bunch of broken video game controllers for parts.

Haven't soldered since.

25 and solderingcel

All my soldering jobs were shit since I remember. Last time I remember using a €10 soldering iron to sold a 3.3v serial from my router so that I could use bit-banging from a raspberry pi to hack into it. I was able to read the console but couldn't write.
When I get the money I'll buy a Hakko station to see if it's me who suck at soldering or it was my equipment that sucked. The guy on EEV Blog said soldering is easy but you must have the right equipment.

Even with a shitty iron and lousy technique, the least amount of soldering skill can sometimes save a set of headphones or a proprietary charger.
Invest in a little bit of heat-shrink tubing (+ hot air gun/hot air station/candle) and your ugly-but-functional solders will be hidden, insulated, and strengthened.
Entry level soldering iron is cheap, but cheap irons will probably cause you issues if you start working on circuit boards