I run a "one-man" workshop at home. I design circuits, then test, assemble, and also install in the field, - my own manufactured electronic gadgets for domestic applications, like: to completely manage the water filling pump, and to sound a self re-setting alarms in any house (in a planned sequence), if someone has entered from the main door, and if he has come further, or gone back from there...etc..etc...(cheap & practical alternative to a CTV system). I make practical control circuits, mainly to specially control the home electrical gadgets.
My favorite micro-controller is: "AtMega8" - a 28-pin micro-chip, which I can get in India for Rs. 85/- only [i.e. less than $ 1.5 (for less than one and a half US dollars)]. I use "C language" to program my chips, at home via a small AVR programmer connected to my laptop. I use Atmel's "Studio 5" to convert my C language codes into a HEX file, that the MCU can read & do the job for me as I want.
I have been using Eagle since year 2010. & In "Eagle" (pcb cadsoft), which always gives a "big and loud WARNING" - if you just step out of it's small (4 in. X 3 in.) pcb boundary,..... (to escape from this headache, I took a break from Eagle, and came to kicad)
& here, KiCad forum keeps reminding and restricting me about how many times to reply to others, & telling me: "you are a new guy, so you can't do this,...& that....." - sort of "ragging" me, almost like a newbie is ragged at college and university levels. But I don't mind, as they mean good after all.
(When the 1st. man landed on the moon, in 24 July, 1969, I was a school child in 5 th. class or so, & I was listening to that commentary on myself built "crystal radio set" . I have been in electronic since then. I had drafted my pcb's later, using "drafting aids" - that had to be placed like stickers on a transparent pvc sheet, & then "screen printed" to make the pcb's. What a tedious process that was. Yet, I have done it all. So I have spent last 48 yrs. in this field..!!)