Over the long term, not enjoying coding may become a detriment. Networking is moving more and more towards automation, and all that entails. Depending upon wh

Over the long term, not enjoying coding may become a detriment. Networking is moving more and more towards automation, and all that entails. Depending upon which world you live, Cisco has their automation, Juniper theirs, and open source has things like Ansible, NAPALM, SaltStack/Proxy,... Thinking logically and being able to write intent based rules is going to be important. Do some research on SDN, SDWAN, NFV, .... Lookup NetFlow as a management tool. Security, networking, application delivery are all becoming inter-twined and Software Driven. Adapt or Die.