I'm knocking on the door of 35 (with a decade and change in xp), and I can relate with what is written in that article. > "Because let's be honest — no one wan

I'm knocking on the door of 35 (with a decade and change in xp), and I can relate with what is written in that article. > "Because let's be honest — no one wants to live their life on monotonous repeat. That stuff is soul-draining. You became a developer for a reason. If it’s not to challenge yourself, then to satisfy some sort of curiosity." This has been my work experience for the last year and a half, and it has spurred me on to start developing more things on the side. My hope is that by end of next year, at least one of those things will have taken off in a way that would allow me to leave my current employeer (which is not horrible, just soul draining in its monotony) and work more on my own endeavours. > "As developers, we’re more equipped than others to build and create things out of nothing. It’s not hard for us to bootstrap an idea on a shoestring budget. This is our advantage — making entrepreneurship an even more lucrative prospect." While I think the developer sphere often thinks it self unique in this regard (it isn't), I do agree that the possible profit margins from turning time + electricity into value are immense. Beware the survivor bias though!