Now that I am an engineer, I understand the amount of effort required to complete a project. The downside of this is that the natural curiosity that I had as a kid toward playing with electronics/software projects is suffering. To do anything interesting to me requires more contiguous time than I have (and for electronics, more sophisticated equipment than I own).<p>I secretly believe I'm just trying to recapture the fun I had playing with lego or my Atari 130 XE as a kid; projects were self-contained and could be done in a single sitting.<p>Does this happen to any of you? How do you deal with it?
I think this starts off with voracious reading of other subjects that may have interested you as a kid, but that you never had the time or inclination to learn.<p>In order to stave off the slightly depressing feeling that your original childhood passions are waning, you pick up new subjects or skills to learn so that you can re-kindle excitement. This is certainly what has worked for me. It helps that you're probably naturally curious about almost anything to begin with (apologies for the gross generalization).