This absolutely meshes with my own experience. After years of software development, I find there's a very different sort of reward associated with building out

This absolutely meshes with my own experience. After years of software development, I find there's a very different sort of reward associated with building out my own fibre network. Once a cable is up on the poles and spliced in, it's a physical real world object that works and makes the customer happy. It's not like software that's never finished with so much internal state that is invisible and constantly needs improvement.