With a physics degree, I was never a proper engineer, and am not employed as a programmer per se. But I think it's safe to say that I have capitalized on my pro

With a physics degree, I was never a proper engineer, and am not employed as a programmer per se. But I think it's safe to say that I have capitalized on my programming skills to advance my career in terms of both rank and income. At the same time, I don't regret not making a career of programming, because I'm not sure that I would have been happy or successful in a pure software job. When I was a kid, I had a summer internship at a computer facility, and programming struck me as something that would be interesting if I was doing it in the service of my own interests, but pretty dull if doing it all day for someone else. Granted, that was a very narrow perspective, and possibly obsolete, but it was the best I could figure out at the time.