I first discovered Battletech from the Harebrained Schemes game (loved the Shadorun games) then i found Tex from the black pants legion YT channel and fell in love with the universe, played a little of mech warrior (stopped because it keep crashing my computer) and now i considering reading the books.
A couple years ago I was job hunting and almost got hired by Harebrained to work on the game. I had bought Battletech a few weeks before my interviews for research to know what I would be getting into. Made it all the way to final interview but they passed on me. I’ve been interested in the tabletop pretty much since then but haven’t gotten around to actually playing it