I have gone through a similar progression. I started undergrad as a computer engineer because I was interested in computers and electronics (even though I only

I have gone through a similar progression. I started undergrad as a computer engineer because I was interested in computers and electronics (even though I only got my first computer at home a year before I started). After two years I thought I hated writing code, but I really liked hooking wires together (in the lab and my parents' house) so I switched to electrical engineering. Once I got to the real world I discovered I liked writing code, I just didn't like writing code for undergrad assignments. Thus, I tried to direct myself towards a hybrid EE/SwE role but ended up in pure software engineering. I have never been completely happy and always think its because I haven't got to do what I really wanted to. Towards the end of my first position at Raytheon I wanted to do digital hardware design and FPGA development. I have never been able to get there. Maybe that really is what I want to do. Maybe I do need variety. I'm not sure. I do know that I get much more excited reading about new sensors for accurate oilfield seismic surveys than I do reading about new algorithms for partitioning distributed graphs.