Coding is easy if you enjoy doing it, met plenty of professional programmers that hated it and never felt the desire to improve. To them it was a way to get a paycheck that paid reasonably well.
Better to have a job you don't like that pays well than to have a job you don't like that pays poorly. But at the same time - if you're smart enough to program well enough to get paid while hating it it's such a shame to not find something you enjoy that will still pay you enough.
I personally find that I hate any activity in a context where I'm paid for it.
Damn. I've definitely had jobs before where I'm legitimately excited when I go to sleep to do it in the morning.