Totally agree, I'm not saying there is a right path. In my case, when I started in this industry 10 years ago I found most of my joy in coding, as time passed

Totally agree, I'm not saying there is a right path. In my case, when I started in this industry 10 years ago I found most of my joy in coding, as time passed by I engaged into different hobbies that brought more joy to my life and ended up allocating more time on them than coding.