"I'm convinced that a large % of programmers don't like computers"

elmer2

I would agree here. I've been working on computers since I was 13 and started coding when I was 15. Many of the old coworkers I had treated it like a job. They just wanted to get it done and go home. It was very rare to find someone genuinely interested in it.

david927

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes," Edsger Dijkstra I always liked that quote because telescopes can introduce artifacts, so astronomers absolutely have to know them in a foundational way, just as the artist needs to know the brush and the canvas. I don't care for computers and I hate all programming languages but I love computer science.

glaslong

It is rare to be able to find a career that satisfies more than one or two quadrants of "Ikigai" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai) That is: • what you can be paid for • what you are good at • what the world needs • what you love I don't fault people at all for only indexing on a job they're good at, and which pays, until we can figure out this whole post-capitalistic mortal coil thing. There ARE many fortunate people for whom programming fulfills all 4, but they don't seem to last long before the profession crushes the love of it out of them. :)