[whysine]

That's true. But my problem is - what else can I do? I have no other qualifications. I'm currently doing translations and it's extremely boring. It's just a part-time job and I could never see myself do this full-time. I tried other things, too, but nothing can compare to coding. Although I often got frustrated, there were also many times when finished a day of coding, went to bed and couldn't wait to start again the next morning. I never felt this way with any other job I did. Another comment mentioned customer support. I guess I will give that a try.

[badpun]

I guess there are different kinds of coding jobs. From my experience, very small teams or ideally freelance, when you're not dealing with the general corporate idiocy/security/agile/co-workers ideas on how to code/gigantic legacy codebase/office politics/etc and "only" have to fight technology, can be more peaceful. Also, technology stacks probably differ in terms of sanity, from completely bonkers (like the Hadoop/Big Data I'm currently in) to something fairly logical (like embedded maybe?).