[daimyoyo]

I have read some bad advice here before, but this ranks among the worst. I would like nothing more than to spend my days sleeping in and my nights creating the next Angry Birds but I live in the real world. There's 14% unemployment here. I don't have my pick of jobs and until I have a major win with the software I create, odds are I won't. I'm very glad that this person has a Utopian philosophy that everyone should only do what they're truly passionate about, but here on Earth that isn't the case for 99.99% of society.

[Vitaly]

I think you are taking it way too literally and narrow. I might not have chosen to work at this specific customer project if they wouldn't pay ;), but I would definitely program in my spare time if I had a non programming job. So, fo me, I do for the living what I would do for free anyway.