[IanCal]

* You often need to teach the basics to lots of people for the smaller number that will take it up as a career to be exposed to it.

* Lots of work is done on computers and programming is a way of automating that work

* If you don't code, you may well work with others that do and having some exposure to what on earth it is some people are/aren't doing is valuable. One of the most useful things I ever did was fail to run a business as it forced me to understand that sales/etc aren't easy, as many techies like to presume, and require skills I lack

* You can build things. Building things is fun, at least to me