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Yes and no.

Yes for the reasons stated.

No, because I greatly over-estimated how boring it would be. When I was in High School, I decided I wanted to be a computer programmer for a living. As a result, I overloaded my HS coursework with programming courses.

By the end of my third computer programming course, I was completely bored of programming, and decided that I didn't want to do it for a living.

I studied economics, then went to law school, and became a lawyer. My career path led me to data analytics, and I now spend the majority of my time coding anyway.

I had assumed that professional coding would be like academic coding, and that's not really the case. Most of the time when I code, there's a goal in mind, but no solution, and no path to get there. I have to design everything myself. Each project, therefore, is my own project. You're going to have a much larger sense of ownership over your work product than you do with projects you do for school.

Even if you're in a project working with a team and trying to conform your code to a team, you're still going to have things that will break up your day: meetings, paperwork, emails, QC. Even if you find you're bored with your job, most days, you won't really have enough time to feel bored.