> You are paid to create value, not write code. When I was in college in the late 90s I was fortunate enough to figure this out through experience. First, the

> You are paid to create value, not write code. When I was in college in the late 90s I was fortunate enough to figure this out through experience. First, there was a real fear all programming jobs were going to be outsourced. So I decided I needed programming + something else (in this case business). Second, as a sophomore I got a job at a small custom software shop in town (it was the late 90s - if you had a pulse you get a 'programming' job). Our clients didn't care about the code, the language it was written in or anything else technical. They only cared about what it did, and if it solved their problem. It also connected 'solve customer problem' to 'getting paid' in a very direct way.