> If you aren't learning, or getting better at the craft, then you're falling behind, becoming irrelevant, and certainly you aren't going to make anything of si

> If you aren't learning, or getting better at the craft, then you're falling behind, becoming irrelevant, and certainly you aren't going to make anything of significance. Disagree. For starters, it might not be glamorous or high-paying, but we need a lot of people to fix and support the wonderful messes that those "really smart people" make. If you have a reasonably solid technical base, you can do that. You don't have to be studying every night for hours. More broadly, keep it firmly in your mind that we'll all be dead rather soon. Everything and everyone you see in tech will be forgotten, also rather soon. If you want to program for love, pick some small side project to putter on. But don't forget to stop and smell the non-tech roses.