I got asked something like that at a trade show booth once, and I just told her the truth, that when no one is looking I read manuals for stuff I don't even own yet. Sounds weird but it's real. She laughed and then we spent 20 minutes talking about how I taught myself to fix my mom's washing machine from a YouTube video at 2am. That chat told me way more about the place than the job description ever did.

Waited 11 days at the same time every morning and the price drop showed up on a random Thursday at 6am? That is wild and honestly a little painful to read, because I would have given up after day 4 or 5 for sure. Did the Google Flights alert email at 4am actually wake you up, or did you just see it later that morning and book it then?