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And else thread from a couple days ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35235534

> I was recently laid off, and I know a few other people laid off. I have years of doing projects and contributing to OSS and being a technically curious learner. I found a new job much faster than my peers who admittedly joined tech for the money and don’t care to learn or grow beyond their next pay raise.

There is a fairly consistent chorus of people getting into software development - not because they enjoy the intellectual challenge that it presents but rather because of the potential for the pay.

As someone who does enjoy software development (I chose this path well before the dot com boom), I believe that we over-estimate the number of people who enjoy it compared to just grinding through writing some code and if something else paid as well, they'd jump in a heartbeat.