> What you describe is a complaint about jobs, corporate culture and how market demands change over time, nothing unique to programming "Market demands"? What

> What you describe is a complaint about jobs, corporate culture and how market demands change over time, nothing unique to programming "Market demands"? What part of "non-monetizable calling" do you not understand? I'm not sure it even makes sense for me to talk to you at all. It is like trying to describe 15-dimensional geometry to a Flatlander. > If you had to choose again, what would you've done that wasn't 'salt-mine labor' then? I can say only: "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (Charles Babbage) But if you must know: I'd be an inventor. In the 1880s. Hey, you asked.