Once upon a time I though my job was gonna be "programmer" and I'm really glad it ended up being "artist" because even when I'm grinding on something I'm not in

Once upon a time I though my job was gonna be "programmer" and I'm really glad it ended up being "artist" because even when I'm grinding on something I'm not into (and I do generally put some energy into avoiding that), I get to laze about a gorgeous tropical city sitting in parks and cafes drawing stuff. My computer's a tool that lets me do something fun, not an end in itself. I spend a significant portion of the time I'm using my computer in Adobe Illustrator, drawing stuff. It is my magical assistant that will tirelessly do a lot of tedious work for me if I know how to tell it what to do. It makes it incredibly easy to do art in a fraction of the time it would take to do it with traditional media; I can, and have, drawn entire comic books by myself in less total time than it would take for a team of a half dozen people to do the same amount of work, because Illustrator lets me take some very different approaches. I still take longer because I am a slacker who considers it a great day if I have spent four whole hours working. Right now a lot of my work in Illustrator is commissions for some delightfully absurd porn. These jobs largely come to me over the Internet, along with non-horny work. I regularly find myself laughing with delight at what I am being paid to draw. But on the flipside I get the impression that Illustrator has never been a prestigious division of Adobe, and I'm sure that maintaining a thirty-year-old codebase is very not fun. I've been asking them for the ability to rotate the preview display for a decade and they are only vaguely beginning to work on it now, with a lot of lengthy excuses as to why this seemingly-simple task is hard. Being a programmer seems to have a lot of ways for it to suck like that. Some of y'all get paid a lot more than I probably ever will unless I stumble into a ludicrously-high-priced gallery art career, but you also have to go live the Dilbert life every damn day. (And as a side note, if any of you folks making ludicrous FAANG money happen to need some weird art to give you something to think about to help you get through those long days of bureaucracy and worrying about your next performance evaluation, my commissions are currently open.)