Unfortunately, most programmer positions do not require you to be great at what you do, or passionate. In fact, being either of those things may be a disadvant

Unfortunately, most programmer positions do not require you to be great at what you do, or passionate. In fact, being either of those things may be a disadvantage. Most programming is just doing stuff that isn't really all that interesting, but it needs to get done. There are also a lot of interesting meaningful problems that desperately need to be solved by creative, capable people, and if your job is to work on one of those, then great, but for many programmers, those kinds of problems are the ones we work on on our own time, if we're so inclined. I think it's strange that the article didn't make a distinction between code-for-work and code-for-fun.