Very true. Simplified by the old cliche. I'm still wondering who came up with it first:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/

siggy47

mostly_harmless

Talent redux

elvismercury

Thanks for the kind words.

> the time flies by while I play at learning things that I do not have an aptitude for

What are the successful strategies for this kind of play?  Any tips?  I'm already feeling the tug that I need some bigger purpose, and (perhaps most acutely) a community to go along with it.  

Which is dangerous, when you try to satisfy those instincts through the mechanism of "work".  I think a lot of what we talk about when we talk about work is a masquerade for these deeper things; it's just there's no culturally-compatible concept to draw from.  "Work" is the closest approximation that people can compute.