I've never lost my excitement, but the majority of programming/tech are off creating worthless nonsense I do not care diddly squat about. When the community was

I've never lost my excitement, but the majority of programming/tech are off creating worthless nonsense I do not care diddly squat about. When the community was learning AWS, I was created my own data centers for exponential savings; when the community went docker, I learned how to create my own VM and chose to discard the technology for bare metal programming. When the community embraced data science, I'd already had 7 semesters of graduate statistics and was happy as a clam. When ML came into vogue, I accessed working on ML models was above me, so I jointed a team lead by a ML pioneer that needed a super competent support scientist. Don't follow the herd, they're swayed by corporate marketing far too easily. Use critical analysis to earn your own trust, and then follow your analysis.