I would agree here. I've been working on computers since I was 13 and started coding when I was 15. Many of the old coworkers I had treated it like a job. They just wanted to get it done and go home.

It was very rare to find someone genuinely interested in it.

I'm fortunate enough to have been in the field from way back when people only ever did it because they were genuinely and obsessively into it. The only people who were doing it for the money were the ones making office software.

Things are radically and tragically different now.

I know what you mean.

I always figured if you were genuinely interested in what the electronics is capable of more so than what it is already doing, you were more likely to come up with things that electronics has never done before.

Otherwise not so much.