I had the opposite problem.
I retired and moved to a rural area. Of course, I answered questions about what I did for work and people learned that I was 'in tech' and 'good at math'. I had all sorts of people asking me to fix their computer problems and asking me various computer questions, along with any tech question they could think of.
This was a consideration when I moved to Linux not long after. It gave me the ability to say that I don't use Windows or Apple products. It was handy to be able to say that the last Windows I had installed was Windows Vista. (It was a solid OS after SP1 was released and a bit buggy prior to that.) Windows 7 was released about 2 years after this.
I did not want to be the 'computer repair guy'. I did not want to be their computer support system. It's not that I didn't like them, it's that I had other interests and other ways to spend my time. It's a wee bit ironic that I now spend several hours of my afternoon/evening essentially being the 'computer guy' online.
If I may be a bit off-topic for some of this...
I should still own a t-shirt that says, "No, I will not fix your computer." But, I owned that before I retired. It's just a t-shirt in my collection of t-shirts and doesn't get worn these days. (Yes, I've saved a ton of clothing over the years and I probably own more shoes than your wife.)
I say 'should' because my kids would often raid my closets. As a performing musician, I'd amassed a lot of clothing - including a lot of what I'd wear on the stage. Between my bedroom and my bathroom, there's a large walk-through wardrobe. There's the same thing on the other end of the bedroom for the missus. She sometimes raids my closets and is always stealing my towels.
Ah well...
If someone switches to Linux, I'm happy to give them a start. So far, that's a grand total of 1.5 people outside of family members. If we count family members, that's 2.5 people. The .5 is a neighbor's kid (adult kid) who plays video games and uses Windows but has one of my old computers with Lubuntu on it.
