[cableshaft]

The one thing people don't tell you about "do the thing you love" for a job is that the people who make decisions and decide which projects to work on usually won't be you, unless what you love to do is be a manager or business owner, which I really don't (I can be project leader, but I don't want to stop programming entirely).

So yeah, I've worked for several companies where I've absolutely loathed the project, but that's what I was assigned to do, so I have to program for it, even though it bores me to tears.

Even when I was making games for a living, I sometimes ended up working on games that I knew were awful, but I wasn't in a position where I could switch to something else easily (I live in the Midwest, where gamedev jobs are scarce anyway, which is one reason why I got out of that industry anyway).

What do I want to work on? Whatever game or app concept I came up with that excites me at the moment.

Who's going to pay me good money to do that? No one.

So instead I'm currently working in an enterprise environment to help pay down my school loans while working on my own stuff with what little energy I have after work hours.