One problem with this field is that the 'art' is different than the 'work', meaning that if you want to marvel in your creations and output beautiful, readable,

One problem with this field is that the 'art' is different than the 'work', meaning that if you want to marvel in your creations and output beautiful, readable, documented, and properly refactored code, you usually don't have the time to do so because you are under a time constraint and to deliver a product. Here's management is important - if in addition the requirements constantly change and you're battling to get something QA'ed and stabilized, it gets even worse. That's why I balance this with my own toy projects and open source work. In open source, there are usually no deadlines, and so it comes as a better substrate for for creativity.