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.
thats not why I am doing it.
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.
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