> programming is a great way to have the zest for life sucked straight out of you Sounds like you're in the wrong field. Just because you find the thing a drud

> programming is a great way to have the zest for life sucked straight out of you Sounds like you're in the wrong field. Just because you find the thing a drudge doesn't mean others feel the same way, and personally I find the cynical 'well real-world programming is ultimately crap' specious and poisonous - to you it is, to me it is not. Why are you still doing it? And why are you stating it like it's some immutable fact we are all avoiding somehow? Personally, I find programming a wonderful, amazing thing even when working on the most incredibly dreary software, and of course considerably more so when working on the more interesting stuff. This kind of stuff is unfortunately common and applicable any + all professions + activities out there. If everybody listened to the nay-sayers, nobody would have tried doing anything. tl; dr: haters gonna hate.