There's writing code that you want to write, code you find interesting to do something you care about. And then there's writing code that somebody else tells yo

There's writing code that you want to write, code you find interesting to do something you care about. And then there's writing code that somebody else tells you to write, that you have to do for a job. Those are different things. I'd imagine most of us started off spending lots of time on the former, and now instead spend most of our time on the latter.