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If you love programming for the sake of programming, better to keep it as a hobby or side thing. When it becomes full time job, specially in a legacy code base,

• lliamander 5y ago
  Programming actually started as just a professional activity for me, and then only became a hobby after I was good enough in it.
• heleninboodler 5y ago
  I disagree with this, from the perspective of someone who really just loves the constant learning and puzzle-solving aspects of programming. I've been doing it for over 30 years and I feel incredibly lucky to have people throw heaps of money at me to do what I enjoy, plus I still work on side project code a few times a week minimum. I even procrastinate programming tasks I don't want to do with programming tasks I do want to do. It's pretty amazing.
  • the_only_law 5y ago
    Unfortunately the thing I enjoy and the thing people pay me to do are radically different