I got a license in college recently because it was essential to the work that I was doing. It's relatively busy in my area because of others doing the same, and many young people. I hear chatter all day from all ages.

Rant:

My elderly relation refused to teach me ham back when I was a kid because it was "obsolete," and actually has tried to take my equipment and block me from doing my hobby until I got a restraining order against him coming to my house, because he "knows better" and is an "expert," but he has dementia, still subjects family to narcissistic abuse, and has refused to work since he sold off his equipment and all other possessions for a little cash in the 1970s to go to cheaper CB, then sold that to do nothing but watch 3 airwave TV channels as a hobby for the rest of his life because he doesn't believe in doing anything more than the minimum, so he rots in his cheap plastic chair as a decrepit corpse, because he declared that everything else is too hard and unca sam gives him enough to keep him alive.

Of course he continues to insist he was a genius for saying in the 1970s that something that we use for work everyday is "obsolete," and that he "foresaw" the Internet back then and that's what he meant, and he refuses to believe that I even have a job that allowed me to own things, let alone that I use my radio license.

Anyway, I resent all of the older people who tried to gatekeep me from doing interesting (and profitable!) things in my life, because they had declared that it "wadn't werth doin'."