I wish I'd realized that I wouldn't enjoy it anymore and be bored of it after 15 years, and that I invested in a skill that despite paying well does also put me

I wish I'd realized that I wouldn't enjoy it anymore and be bored of it after 15 years, and that I invested in a skill that despite paying well does also put me in the line of fire of cardiovascular disease, carpal tunnel, feeling like a zombie from sitting alone in front of a screen all day, and general burnout from death marches and the like. It took me a long time to get this bored of it though, so if you are similar you should be OK for a long time maybe. If you get paid well, don't spend to match your income. Save as much as you can. You never know if you'll lose the drive 10 years in. I know the world of code can be very exciting, but after a lot of work you start to see there is nothing new under the sun and you fix and write the same old things in different forms. And most of the problems you grapple with are man-made, like the idiocy of using languages without static typing voluntarily