I am in my early 40s and have been a software engineer my entire career. Lately, I can't bring myself to care about this or that new framework, but I have spent

I am in my early 40s and have been a software engineer my entire career. Lately, I can't bring myself to care about this or that new framework, but I have spent hundreds of hours watching electrician videos on YouTube and have been joking with my wife that I'm going to quit my job and become an apprentice electrician. So, yeah. This resonates. But recently I watched a video where a guy had to do his ten millionth ceiling fan install and he had some particular trouble getting to where he needed to be in the customer's attic and he was filthy and hot and probably bored by this stupid task he'd done a million times and in that moment I realized I was idealizing and over-extrapolating from the excitement of learning a new skill. Learning to wire my own house was fun and interesting. I don't want to do it every day for strangers.