How about getting to know your problem domain in depth instead? If I had wanted to be a biologist, or a businessman, or a banker, I would have become one of th

How about getting to know your problem domain in depth instead? If I had wanted to be a biologist, or a businessman, or a banker, I would have become one of those things. My domain is computers, and computers are what I am interested in. I will take playing with pointers over $different_kind_of_work any day. I think it's just a personality thing, but that's the way it is for me. I would guess that a sizeable minority of programmers are like that.