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its not a vocation for me, its a passion. if you're approaching programming just to make money, yeah, you're probably going to have a terrible time. thats not

• nly 3y ago
  You're probably not passionate about programming, you're probably passionate about crafting or completing something that involves some degree of simple puzzle solving or design. Or maybe you're interested in rule/logic based systems. That's the spark. Programming was one of my interests too, but if someone offered to put £2M in to my bank account under condition I never wrote a single line of code again, well... I'd take it in a heartbeat and I'm pretty sure I could find another "passion" in the 20 years of my own life that that would buy me. Hell, if i didn't have to work, I bet I could find a half dozen passions.
  • 2h 3y ago
    Sorry man, but you're projecting. I'm not rich, but I have enough to survive, and some of the code I'm writing literally doesn't have any other public implementations, so to me it's important that I keep going.
  • shrimp_emoji 3y ago
    Interesting. I don't think I would take it. I think I could find other passions, but none of them seem as boundless and fungible (pursuable with nothing but a computer) or as productive (I can make stuff happen!) as programming. Money isn't something I'm suffering for want of. But I would suffer for want of something like programming. It's the coolest thing in life, and now I can't do it anymore since I got all this money? Not a good trade. I didn't get into it for the money to begin with. :p