Great response!

There's also the lovely condescension that I can't help but sense when someone tells me why writing code every day shouldn't be as fulfilling as it is. That's a big part of how some people get a sense of fulfillment, myself included. I suck at drawing and painting, and programming is my main creative outlet. Implying (or sometimes stating!) that I should be spending less of my time coding so as to spend more time doing something that they find more fulfilling is... rude at best.