I came to like SMT work far, far more than
through-hole very shortly
after that, though. Now I dread through-hole; it just takes too damn
long and is generally a pain compared to SMT.
I think I still prefer through-hole work (maybe becasue I've had more
expeirence of it, or becuase you can easilly socket DIL pagkages to make
debugging easier, or becuse through-hole prototpying boards are easier to
obtain). but I certainly don't worry aobut SMD stuff.
-tony