Yeah, I have been coding since 1967, wrote some IBM assembler back then, then migrated to COBOL as it was easier to code in... My first paid job was programming via wiring pegboards in a bank. The Bank mainframe had 256kb of iron core memory, which filled a 20 x 30 sq ft room with a raise aluminum floor.
Fairly serious question; how do you not end up fleeing into something else? I've been doing this as a job for ~15 years and I seem to spend increasingly more and more of my time despairing over the state of everything!