The question is 'how?'
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Yep. Many people who designed all that experimental crap back in 2000 thinking that they'd get a job because they could make a ball bounce at random eventually got wise and thought, "I better find a practical use for complex AS" or else NO ONE is going to give me a job. I was heavily involved with Flashkit.com as a moderator back then (still am, just not as active) and it was crazy all the kids thinking they were going to make money and get offered great jobs because they knew how to code friction.
Look at someone like Josh Davis. He was a leader back then at doing all the experimental, advanced actionscript - menu sliders, navigation, etc. (Nothing he was doing was crap though :)
His stuff pushed people to learn more, and now he is a great example of putting things to good use that have a purpose. But he wouldn't be where he is now without spending countless hours trying out new things, working his imagination, and never giving up.