Kind of, on both accounts. I was definitely bored out of my mind when I worked in software jobs. Now I'm retired on relatively a small amount of money, so I can

Kind of, on both accounts. I was definitely bored out of my mind when I worked in software jobs. Now I'm retired on relatively a small amount of money, so I cannot just pay to provide all of my materials needs, but have to be engaged in multimodal ways (e.g. cycle instead of going by car, cook for myself from cheap ingredients instead of eating out and not minding prices, fixing my stuff myself instead of discarding it or paying the repairman etc.). This way of living is much more varied and engaging, at least for me. Also, I have a 92 year old grandmother who, during her youth, lived in what was basically a premodern village. She has told many tales of the life back then but she never mentioned being bored. The number of skills she had would be mindboggling for a typical XXI century office dweller, who often can pretty much only (for example) code and swipe his credit card.