"Note that of course you're not passionate about sheet metal. The entire premise is ridiculous because even the sheet metal people see it as a job." Limiting y

"Note that of course you're not passionate about sheet metal. The entire premise is ridiculous because even the sheet metal people see it as a job." Limiting yourself to passion projects really limits the markets you can move into because there's a lot of correlations in what we all have passion for. Comedy is at least not in the A-list for programmers (it's not a text editor/IDE, video game, or web framework, etc.), but it's still not sheet metal, logistics, accounting, or something else that can have clear value to customers, who will give you real money. I have a clear through-line on how a sheet metal software shop will make money, in quantities sufficient to live on, and indeed, to start hiring people from. I've got a much less clear through-line on how a "comedy directory" is going to make that money. I mean, I see one: ads, of course. But it's a much more amorphous and fussy through-line. Heck, the reasonable best case for the comedy site economically, "low-level life-style site", is perilously close to the worst case for industrial software, "$0 in revenue". That's not a lot of daylight there in business terms, partially due to the volatility inherent in an ad-based business. Not saying you should hate what you work on, but opening things up to things that you're doing to make money broadens your possibilities a lot. You may well find some unexpected passions along the way.