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The author has choosen wrong profession. As work makes up a good part of your life, you better enjoy it. Actually programming "business stuff" is quite different from tinkering with e.g. the newest machine learning algorithm, so talking of "programming" is a over simplification and indicates the author never got a grasp of what other people actually enjoy when "programming".

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I chose the wrong day job, too, but it seemed like a good idea when I was 18 and my family's idea of a good job was bartending. I was a failed musician who took up writing, and I had just enough sense to realize that I'd need a day job.

If cleaning toilets paid $25/hour I'd still be doing that. Somebody has to do it.

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