Same as you but I started about 21 years ago with a zx-spectrum At 16 years old I hit my thumb many times trying to nail something in my bedroom wall. My mum l

Same as you but I started about 21 years ago with a zx-spectrum At 16 years old I hit my thumb many times trying to nail something in my bedroom wall. My mum laughed her head off and told me very seriously "you better be good with computers because you're totally useless with your hands". So I become a programmer. I design and program full time, 90% self taught, whether low level stuff or high level stuff, I make games, I do all sorts of things that involve programming in many languages. Technology changes, especially the front-end is becoming incredibly irrelevant. The abstractions are so high you wonder who knows how to write code anymore. There are certainly technologies and languages I prefer. I focus on those. They sort of drive my next challenge, my next job etc. I've always preferred talking to compilers than people. Personally I do this professionally as well as after hours. I estimate I spend about 12 hours days in IntelliJ, commercially or not. When I'm procrastinating, it's usually programming _something else_. My biggest concern is keeping fit and not dying of a premature death sitting for so long.