Never say never

It's a common story, programming in Logo/Basic as a child, through Pascal and C when growing up, and ending up as a "professional" software developer. But there have been a couple of twists along the way. I ended up doing things (out of my free will!) that I'd never have expected to do when I started. Was it worth it? What might your options be? (btw: I didn't pivot to herding sheeps in Bieszczady, I'm still doing quite a lot of programming)