Got a CS degree worked as a junior developer and absolutely hated it. I became a line technician for a semiconductor company then and engineering tech within the first year. I decided I like it so started doing the night school bit and got my EE and became a test engineer developing hardware and software to test analog parts. I moved to a different group and they realized I was a bit of a computer geek so I built the first server for one of our subcons. fast forware a few years I was a sysadmin with about 20 VMWare clusters scattered around the globe, about 500VMs. It had grown the group to about 30 people and while I had half the headcount of corporate IS, I had twice the budget.

We were acquired by a behemoth of a company and they kept my role pretty much the same with a slightly different reporting structure. About 6 months after my previous company was acquired we acquired another monster, went from 13K employees to 20K in shot. The manager of the engineering system group high tailed as soon as he could and I was offered to take his place after helping to integrate my previous team into corporate IS and global IS. Now I'm back to developing software to handle the data streams from the production systems, like yield, parametric data, and OEE type of stuff.

as an upside, I now have MSCS, BSEE, and some day I'll get around to finishing my MBA.

TLDR: I started out as a CS developer, became a EE, migrated to a sysadmin chair, and am now back to being a developer, in just under 20 years.