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The funny thing is that for a long time I probably would have programmed for fun, without getting paid.

It was the hobby I was really happy to turn into a full time, paying job.

I know I'm not alone in that either. I used to joke with colleagues about not letting the boss know how much we enjoyed the work.

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It's funny you say that because just this morning I was thinking about my first job and remembering how amazing it was that I was actually getting paid to do the thing that I did for fun in my spare time.

I actually hate writting code for money, I do that because it pays, but I dislike it.

I love writting code for myself: no brain dead managers or product people, no one asks "will it scale to 10000000 when natural cap is 10", no arch reviews where bunch of people that aren't familiar with the problem or the solution ask dumb questions addressed in the first slide.

You sound like you don't like other people very much.

I don't like perfomative people, specifically perfomative people in corporate setting.

Who does? In the words of a wise man, "People listen to Coldplay and voted for Hitler. You can't trust people". :P

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