Wow, congrats! I'm glad you are happy where you are :) I got my Associate Degree but I didn't end up transferring to a 4-year cuz I realized I hated being in school and decided to stick to working full-time. I can't afford jack-shit though when it comes to living anywhere on my own though so I'm stuck with the real possibility I'll have to go back to school just to get a better job...
I miss the old Trade Corner days too, a big part of it was the community. But trading and breeding changed and the community kind of just moved along. But such is time I guess.
I've been popping onto PC sporadically on and off throughout the years, each time telling myself "I'll stick around this time" but never actually fully committing to it >.<
I've been told nice things about Arceus, but I've held off on it in favor of other Switch games like Shin Megami Tensei III and V (which I am lagging on my playthroughs of lol, forever adding to that backlog). I haven't really been into Pokemon as much past Gen 6, I played Sun and Sword and but didn't do much past the main storylines.
But apart from newer games, I'm also playing through several older games at once. I'm actively playing Super Robot Taisen D and Last Bible II right now.
Did you see the Nintendo Direct today? Are you interested/excited about any of it? I'm big into the SMT games so I'm looking forward to possibly picking up Persona 3 (and eventually 5). I'm also excited about the release of the MegaMan Battle Network collection even though I already own most of the games cuz it means people will be able to get into/back into them since physical retro game prices have seriously skyrocketed :/