I mean, I love software development, spend a lot of my own time on it outside of work. In fact I've been writing code since I was 11 or 12, close to 20 years no

I mean, I love software development, spend a lot of my own time on it outside of work. In fact I've been writing code since I was 11 or 12, close to 20 years now, professionally for 8 years, but I'm also very intelligent and like my lifestyle, so if that evaporated the chance that I'd continue to do professional software development, especially since many of the things we deal with day to day for pay are arguably the worst parts of software development, would be very low. This whole "its your calling" thing is how the abuse and low pay in adjacent industries, like game development, are maintained, and frankly it's BS. I'd go back to school and into something that will maintain my lifestyle.