Electronics was my first love. At school as a kid I said I wanted to be an electrician (I knew a few) - but I had good maths skills, so Elec Eng was recommended (so since I was 10 I knew what I wanted to study at least - was a nice feeling - never understood "not knowing what to do").
Went to university, about 2 years in I realised that I had seen and understood the state of the art in electronics, at least the core of it, and that all the interesting stuff was in VLSI/chips, and so on (all of which was basically done in software). I even started designing my hobby circuitry in Microcap and pspsice before I would build it, and then I realised I had almost completed the transition into software - when I realised I was "creating" things in software, it was liberating...
Went to university, about 2 years in I realised that I had seen and understood the state of the art in electronics, at least the core of it, and that all the interesting stuff was in VLSI/chips, and so on (all of which was basically done in software). I even started designing my hobby circuitry in Microcap and pspsice before I would build it, and then I realised I had almost completed the transition into software - when I realised I was "creating" things in software, it was liberating...