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Blend of #1 & #3 here. Without the pay, I don't think I'd muster the patience for dealing with all the non-programming BS that comes with the job. So I'd have found something else with decent pay, and preferably not an office job. Sometimes I wish I'd taken that other path. I have responsibilities outside work, so I'm rarely putting in more than 40 hours. Prior to family commitments, I had side projects and did enough coding outside work. I still miss working on hobby video game projects. But I do take the professionalism seriously and will do the dirty work that has to be done, even if means cozying up to group #2 to make things happen for the sake of the project.