[TurboHaskal]

Like most of us, I wanted to write my own games, which I did until I reached professional age.

Now I deeply regret making a profession out of my hobby, for the following reasons:

- Projects in general are unrewarding and uninteresting. People claim the industry is broken due to the hiring process, but I actually find whiteboard interviewing quite fun and challenging. The question for me is not why the hiring process does not mimic a real work scenario, but rather why are our jobs so boring to begin with.

- The industry is infested by puritan and cult like behaviour. Critical thinking is the fastest way to being an outcast and having an unsuccessful career. Plus everyone seems to have realised that you have to be a self-branding narcissist these days.

- Lack of true passion and love for programming in the field. Talking about, I don't know, compilers for example, rewards you with weird stares and disgusted faces.

- The pay isn't that great in Europe to begin with.