I will answer with what most of my audio minded peers did not do and and I did, that serendipitously, paid off. Listen to as many genres of music as you can stand, give them a second and third chance enough to acquire a taste or not for the unfamiliar. As somewhat a flower child, coming of age in SF in the '60s I became bored with prog and metal in the '70s, I flirted with punk, country, bluegrass. But I really gave jazz of many sub-genres a go and love it still. Blues, folk and classical have stayed with me and lately poly-rhythmic music styles from Africa and So. America are on my playlists, especially the up tempo stuff, like highlife, cumbia and modern tango. Music and gear of all sorts have stayed close since my early teens as hobbies came and went.