Also if you don't already have one, don't get a dog until your kids are a bit grown up and require less attention
You'll feel bad not being able to give your dog enough training and time when your kids require it.
Good parks for kids also ban dogs, so you'll leave your furry friend at home a lot.
I've reached for some complex awk when I am looking to parse snippets of code where breaking out a full language parser would have been too much.
One example is parsing statements from a Dockerfile but only within certain stages of the image. So I reach for regex range in awk and I can make something that works everywhere.
Of course I probably could have done the same thing in python by controlling the beginning and end via variables, but I like awk sometimes.