Making things is fun... Programming is fun when you do it for you (side projects, hobbies, etc), but when you have to push a 70h week to meet a stupid deadline,

Making things is fun... Programming is fun when you do it for you (side projects, hobbies, etc), but when you have to push a 70h week to meet a stupid deadline, it's not. When you have to debug some weird bug on a conflicting environment or platform, it's not fun. Professional programming can be fun, but it's usually not. But it's a job I wouldn't change for anything else.