Kind of the opposite... I enjoyed hobby programming in high school, but my only experience with it as a career was seeing what my dad did as a programmer in a l

Kind of the opposite... I enjoyed hobby programming in high school, but my only experience with it as a career was seeing what my dad did as a programmer in a large company. Too many meetings and architecture review boards for my taste, so I was looking for something else in college. Then I discovered what it's like building tools for researchers and realized I could enjoy programming for a living, and that it all depends on the team size (small!) and the context.