most people in IT are resigned to the fact that they work for money and live life outside work For me, it was PG's essay that overwrote this idea, which I had

most people in IT are resigned to the fact that they work for money and live life outside work For me, it was PG's essay that overwrote this idea, which I had been raised with - http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html In defense of the amazing people who raised me with the work/pay assumption, they lived most of their lives in the Soviet Union, where there weren't many options aside from working for money handed down from a higher power.