I started coding pretty young (Perl probably ruined me at 12), and what I realized as a teenager was that I didn't really enjoy programming, it was just the means to an end. I wanted to make the computers do something.

I'm a system administrator now. Turns out that most of the problems I wanted to solved had capable people already working on them.

Those years of coding give me such an advantage when things go wrong, though. I've never regretted it for a second.