I have a similar feeling, a bottomless search for knowledge, but I also don’t want to spend my years hunched over a computer. I try to fill my personal off time

I have a similar feeling, a bottomless search for knowledge, but I also don’t want to spend my years hunched over a computer. I try to fill my personal off time when I’m not with my wife or kid with something that lets me work with my hands, and has a level of mastery and a definite end to a project. Woodworking has been that thing. There is probably a lifetime of learning little tricks, but you could have a full education without the mastery in a couple months of dedicated work. Then you’ll be up, moving (I use hand tools almost exclusively) and able to work on something rewarding, but not as mentally taxing. I actually usually come up with solutions to hard problems at work after I’ve been hand planing/sanding something for 20 minutes. It’s also wonderful to be able to point to something and say “I made that” to friends and family. I usually ask a friend to come over and work on something with me, often it’s something I’m making for them.