For me, it's neither the geekiness or the pay. Neither are present in excess anyway. I do it for the view. The mental view. I do OOP and visualize buzzing, movi

For me, it's neither the geekiness or the pay. Neither are present in excess anyway. I do it for the view. The mental view. I do OOP and visualize buzzing, moving, clicking, rotating little mechanism that do orchestrated work. And join powers to create biger, more complex mechanism. And I get to make it (design/write), adjust it (debug) and see it work (run). Hellboy II's intro comes to mind.