[jpttsn]

What if it’s fun, but they can program without you? Then they might choose to have fun with the highest bidder.

I would program even if money was no issue. There are many who would.

[cies]

Me too, but not 30+ hours per week. And on something of my choosing. And...

Then programming usually does not come by itself: meetings, company politics, little mgmt, all usually come with it when programming professionally. Many of those tasks I consider less fun than the programming itself.