In my own experience, it has nothing to do with age or generation, it's simply down to one particular aspect of one's personality: curiosity. A lot of people ju

In my own experience, it has nothing to do with age or generation, it's simply down to one particular aspect of one's personality: curiosity. A lot of people just aren't that curious about the world around them. Ever notice that lots of tech and IT geeks are also very knowledgeable about completely unrelated fields? It's not a coincidence, I don't think. The type of people that are drawn to the tech field are often people that are simply curious about everything. Just so happens you can make a good living in tech, but not as easily in gardening or building RC planes. I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s and was very interested in computers, dabbling in C++ and Flash ActionScript and all sorts of things. It was just because I was curious about it. Most of my other friends just weren't. When they saw something and they didn't know how it worked, they didn't even think to care. I see this with people of all ages, young and old. My mother is like that, but my father is very curious. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more curious about things and I just keep learning more and more. Some people just want to know how everything works and will take the time to figure it out.