I'm currently work as a full-time developer, and I love it.
I never thought I'd be a developer, though.
I was beginning to learn programming around 8th-9th grade, but I was only creating webpages, simple CRUD apps, and other things that weren't very "serious".[1]
At this time, I knew I didn't want to be a programmer because I knew the job equated to sitting around doing math problems all day. It's not that I didn't think I was smart enough—I was a very good math student. I just couldn't think of anything less appealing than doing math problems all day, every day for the rest of my life. I didn't know what the job actually entailed, but I thought I did.
[1] I thought of "programmers" as people who built 3D engines, used complex math to render interfaces (shapes, colors, animations, etc). By that standard, I'm still not a programmer. :)
I never thought I'd be a developer, though.
I was beginning to learn programming around 8th-9th grade, but I was only creating webpages, simple CRUD apps, and other things that weren't very "serious".[1]
At this time, I knew I didn't want to be a programmer because I knew the job equated to sitting around doing math problems all day. It's not that I didn't think I was smart enough—I was a very good math student. I just couldn't think of anything less appealing than doing math problems all day, every day for the rest of my life. I didn't know what the job actually entailed, but I thought I did.
[1] I thought of "programmers" as people who built 3D engines, used complex math to render interfaces (shapes, colors, animations, etc). By that standard, I'm still not a programmer. :)