After a decade of doing it, I'm trying to get away from it.
To detail a little bit, I got into programming computers out of passion. The pay and the life was an after-thought. I'm still passionate and that is both a gift and a curse.
It's a curse because it slowly consumed me, my life, and much of anything else besides computers, throwing my life out of balance many times before, and each time I had to go to lengths to become "normal" again. Even now I have things in my (life's) program that I had to force them there to keep me straight and healthy.
It's a gift because despite reckoning all the damage it did in my life it still brings me joy. I'm like a sort of junkie in this regard, and now just like a junkie I feel the pain of getting away from it.
Now, looking back, the funny thing is, if I have to chose again something to invest into like I did twenty years ago, I'll repeat my choice (for better and worse). The take away would probably be that if you get into it and you're passionate about it then your passion will serve you well (feeding you with happiness), and if you're less passionate about it then your lack of passion will also serve you well (by keeping you human, the job itself being a relatively healthy one).
To detail a little bit, I got into programming computers out of passion. The pay and the life was an after-thought. I'm still passionate and that is both a gift and a curse.
It's a curse because it slowly consumed me, my life, and much of anything else besides computers, throwing my life out of balance many times before, and each time I had to go to lengths to become "normal" again. Even now I have things in my (life's) program that I had to force them there to keep me straight and healthy.
It's a gift because despite reckoning all the damage it did in my life it still brings me joy. I'm like a sort of junkie in this regard, and now just like a junkie I feel the pain of getting away from it.
Now, looking back, the funny thing is, if I have to chose again something to invest into like I did twenty years ago, I'll repeat my choice (for better and worse). The take away would probably be that if you get into it and you're passionate about it then your passion will serve you well (feeding you with happiness), and if you're less passionate about it then your lack of passion will also serve you well (by keeping you human, the job itself being a relatively healthy one).