[smilesnd]

I found my passion by getting really pissed off. One day I was sitting at my windows xp box and I wanted to do something really stupid/simple. I wanted to change all the icons for a application so it would fit my theme. Long story short I ended up switching to ubuntu learned to program and learned more about operating systems and networking then I ever should have. Now as a software developer I find my passion is driven by being pissed at a problem or situations that I want to control. Twitter tells me I can't do what?? I will write entire library just for that purpose. Windows 10 wants to run what in my background?? I will either figure out a way to change that in the registry, boot it in linux and delete things I shouldn't, or write some script that keeps it in check.

[wingerlang]

> I wanted to change all the icons for a application so it would fit my theme.

In 2012 I wanted to move the notification badges to fit my theme on my jailbroken device. However there were no way to do it, so I got into developing software for jailbroken devices and did it myself. 6-ish years later I still do it. It also led me into my current (iOS) developer career.

I've been programming for way longer than this, so my passion was known beforehand, however the current direction seemed very relevant to your comment.

[asr1191]

That's quite an interesting idea. I'm sorry if this comment does not have much substance, but you gave me an epiphany. Thank you. I will try to do that for myself too!