[jcheng]

I get to work with highly intelligent people, doing work that impacts tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

My day-to-day involves taking the most powerful and complex invention in history, and bending it to my will in ever more elegant and sophisticated ways.

For my efforts I'm paid X times the average US wage and receive regular kudos from strangers on Twitter and blogs.

My friends and family assume I must be a genius to be able to do what I do. On my best, most satisfying days, I'm not so sure they're wrong.

I'm just an ordinary programmer at an ordinary startup, but from where I sit this job is amazingly glamorous.