I have almost the same views. All through my childhood I liked building things, and taking other things apart to see how they worked. An elementary hacker if yo

I have almost the same views. All through my childhood I liked building things, and taking other things apart to see how they worked. An elementary hacker if you will. Then I grew up and went into a subset of manufacturing, but always loved playing with technology. After some years, I started building systems to help me perform my job with more automation and skill and after a couple projects, I needed to learn to code, which I started to pick up. Programming things is something I love, but its a tool to do other interests. Coding and programming just to write keywords and numbers in a text editor isn't all that fun.