[bluefirebrand]

I think this person is very harsh in their judgement of people who went into programming as a career choice rather than out of some starry eyed passion for computing.

I was absolutely one of those "dead eyed zombies" in my CS classes in university. And I loved computers and computing!

What I was lacking was energy from working two part time jobs while attending classes. What I was struggling with wasn't a lack of passion for programming, it was a lack of passion for anything, because my teenaged years had ground it out of me.

Depression is a bitch.