A) Make a million dollars a year doing something you hate that nobody will know about or care about If you got million dollars paid for the thing you built, th

A) Make a million dollars a year doing something you hate that nobody will know about or care about If you got million dollars paid for the thing you built, that is million times "know about" + million times "care about" B) Make no money doing something you love that your friends think is cool. I will almost always choose B, and I think most hackers will also always choose B. I would go as far as saying that choosing B is one of the defining characteristics of a hacker. One can find the golden path to make something one loves, something his friends think it is cool and yet, something which million people will find it worth paying a dollar a year. Doing cool things, things "friend think it is cool" is nice, but you cannot go to the grocery with, nor pay your bills with it, right? Besides, that cool thing, will soon loose it glory to something cooler unless it will be maintained and evolved. Money is a great way having one stick to a project and keep it up and running.