When I was in my late teens, I realized that videogame development was harder, underpaid and didn't focus on the aspects I liked about software development (lon

When I was in my late teens, I realized that videogame development was harder, underpaid and didn't focus on the aspects I liked about software development (long term vision of the software, software design). I dropped that and never looked back. My career is very happy, enjoyable, well paid. As usual there are exceptions in every context, but what you seem to be doing is similar, I believe that focusing on the product is wrong. Working on a type of product has little connection to the type of work that is going to be performed, which could be boring or very different from what expected. My thought has always been: focus on the type of work you want to do, the rest comes naturally (potentially even passion for a new product!)