[austin-cheney]

Be extremely primitive in your thinking.

I thought I would love to be a programmer. I didn't start programming until I was 28. I loved programming. I loved building things and solving tough problems that saved me time or automated real world problems away.

It turns out I still love programming nearly 2 decades later, but not for work. I grew to loathe it. I had a deep passion for programming, but most of my peers did not. Most of my peers never really seemed to learn to program and so when presented with a tough problem all they knew was to find some tool or framework to do it for them.

So, moral of the story is dig deeper. Thinking about programming was not deep enough. I wanted to build things, so I should have started from that and looked for jobs where I would be building things, and programming in the corporate world typically is not that.