Interesting to see. Been a computer-person all my life, but only started programming with Python like 4 years ago.
Switched from Python to Go after about a year. Go just seemed much easier to work with.
I have still, to this day, not made a single penny with Go. Never been a professional programmer. It's so weird to think that I'm still trying to learn more and more about it and use it for _something_.
Go really pulled me in somehow. I blame Todd McLeod and Jon Calhoun ;)
Ultimately the value of Go for me seemed to be quick-access to lots of buzzwordy things I wanted to make use of. Concurrency, web-apps, internet / online - infrastructure things. (Funnily enough I still don't use concurrency much or properly at all. Like, years in and I still don't.)
There is hardly a greater feeling than to make something work, to figure something out. To know you've learned something. I just hope that one day that will actually turn into money. That seems to be the trickiest part. Hmmmm.