"You've got to serve somebody" -- Bob Dylan. The author doesn't say what is preventing him/her from finding a programming task that he/she is passionate about a

"You've got to serve somebody" -- Bob Dylan. The author doesn't say what is preventing him/her from finding a programming task that he/she is passionate about and pays enough to live on. I've been around awhile and let me tell you, there are so many more interesting programming challenges now because hardware has made incredible advances. There's only so much you can do in what used to be called 3M (one megabyte of random access memory, a megapixel display and megaflop performance.) Oh, and no internet to speak of.