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My child specifically? My heart would break because I'd know she's only doing it for the money and she'd be miserable. It's a great field, but I think pure programming can be soul crushing if you don't have natural interest.

I'll teach my daughter some of the skills because i don't think there are many careers where programming has zero value, but my kid is a theater kid through and through. It's very tragic for my financial dreams for her, but I'm getting a little more heartened as she and I explore and I talk to people about the domain. I'm hoping it'll be like when I learned that technical writing existed, so a writer kid was not doomed to starve.