There's very little in the way of commercial software development that makes me, "want to program wet and naked." The kinds of things in programming that get me

There's very little in the way of commercial software development that makes me, "want to program wet and naked." The kinds of things in programming that get me going are mostly academic at this point and the application of technology that I am interested in I am not qualified for at the engineering level... so I just have to make my bills and study Hilbert's absolute proofs and meta-mathematics in my own time (which is very little these days). Maybe it's different for you and I hope you do find something like that because there's nothing like it. But for practical reasons you may consider just doing a job and not expecting to derive happiness and fulfillment from every waking moment of your day. Update: Not that you can't find happiness and fulfillment from doing a good job and making people happy. ;)