I originally got into programming not for the exact same reasons, but for similar ones (reasons that were tangential to one of my primary interests). I guess I

I originally got into programming not for the exact same reasons, but for similar ones (reasons that were tangential to one of my primary interests). I guess I found that I loved it just as much and just never stopped, even though I never accomplished the original goal. These kinds of things can just as often lead to happy accidents, I guess.