While I can understand that approach, I do wonder if my origin to programming is common or not. I did not get in to programming to become a programmer. I lea

While I can understand that approach, I do wonder if my origin to programming is common or not. I did not get in to programming to become a programmer. I learned programming to solve a problem I was having, in my case I did start out in web development in the 90's. I wanted a website that did something that I could not find premade software that did it in the way I wanted so I wrote my own. I also learned of open source and and other communities via this process. Had I just stuck with the commercial software solution I bought, that was terrible, I would have missed out on on a skill I eventually learned to love. The website (and company around it) I built was never successful, but from that experience I learned a skill that carried me to the career I now have