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for me its programming. I first learned Go in 2020, and what I discovered is how much help is needed.

you would think in this day you can get any code for anything you want, but many, many items have no implementation at all. or maybe some code is available, but its years old and abandoned. or maybe its just shitty code. or maybe its a huge bloated mess and you just want one simple thing. so, if you think you might have some skill, I would strongly suggest learning to program, we could really use the help.

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This forum is chock full of programmers and judging by how often articles like this come up many aren't finding a great deal of meaning in this vocation.

its not a vocation for me, its a passion. if you're approaching programming just to make money, yeah, you're probably going to have a terrible time.

thats not why I am doing it.

You're probably not passionate about programming, you're probably passionate about crafting or completing something that involves some degree of simple puzzle solving or design. Or maybe you're interested in rule/logic based systems. That's the spark.

Programming was one of my interests too, but if someone offered to put £2M in to my bank account under condition I never wrote a single line of code again, well... I'd take it in a heartbeat and I'm pretty sure I could find another "passion" in the 20 years of my own life that that would buy me. Hell, if i didn't have to work, I bet I could find a half dozen passions.

Interesting. I don't think I would take it.

I think I could find other passions, but none of them seem as boundless and fungible (pursuable with nothing but a computer) or as productive (I can make stuff happen!) as programming.

Money isn't something I'm suffering for want of. But I would suffer for want of something like programming. It's the coolest thing in life, and now I can't do it anymore since I got all this money? Not a good trade. I didn't get into it for the money to begin with. :p

Sorry man, but you're projecting. I'm not rich, but I have enough to survive, and some of the code I'm writing literally doesn't have any other public implementations, so to me it's important that I keep going.

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