Personally, I’ve always loved the process of taking things apart, understanding how they work and putting them back together. I turned that into a degree in mechanical engineering and eventually a career in power plant operations. Couldn’t be happier with my work than I currently am. Its WORK but I don’t hate it and I feel like I’m doing something important.
Loved learning programming as a teen, never wanted to do it as a job, then when I got older I realized that’s the only marketable skill I have, so I became a developer.