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> To me, even if I was never financially well off, but I got to pursue my passions and creativity, that would be a life well spent.

That's pretty difficult to obtain. For typical creative passions, you need to be in the top 1% for them to sustain you.

[Ken_At_EM]

I don’t know what a typical creative passion is.

I am into product development, particularly products that are what I would call “full stack.”

Electronics, firmware, software, and web stack all developed for the product.

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Are you passionate about product development within a confines of somebody else' company? Then it's definitely not a common passion.

If, on the other hand, you're passionate about software development and electronics, then it's a very common passion and you have to be in the top 1% to make a living out of your creations. Of course, there are subniches with various degrees of difficulty - it's easier to make money on some technically simple B2B SaaS than on consumer robots for example.

[Ken_At_EM]

I would be less passionate in someone else's company than my own. However, I could do it passionately for a company that I believe in.

I don't understand your point. Isn't there a massive chunk of people who are passionate about "software development and electronics" that make a living off of it?