[Taniwha]

like yosefk I sort of fell into it, worked for a company architecting stuff in pals/fpgas, it came time to build chips, someone else laid gates and I did the high level stuff, next time around it was easier for me to do it in verilog - after that I changed companies and build a bunch of SoCs with a larger team working as a logic designer.

After a decade or so I actually made a concious decision to stop building chips, once the novelty wore off I found I was doing a month's creative work a year and 11 months of timing and DV. As a systems software hack I'd get somthing woprking today, and something else tomorrow - much more of a sense of accomplishment - these days I do a bit of hardware and a bit of software - mostly embedded systems - I definitely enjoy it more