Employed work is not everything.

There is life around paid work and we may enjoy / need creativity there, for entertainment, to change the world or everything in between.

(though there are many situations where being creative is useful nay instrumental in paid work too)

If anything, children are often very creative and (early) school also acts as a way to shut down some of this creativity, teaching you to (not) behave / think like this or like this. For the better or worse. A big chunk of elementary and high school is about following instructions properly.