[malonedotcc]

People are getting touchy because of this response, but let me answer it myself.

To me, coding is like painting or cooking. It's a fun activity done for leisure and self-improvement. I do silly things like code Brainfuck environments because I mostly do these things for me.

I'm not in a startup or building a company because I don't want to give my leisure activity a work stigma. I don't want to code for money because it'll strip away everything I like about programming: the fun of untangling a problem, the casual pace of piecing together a solution and the independence of being able to code whatever I want whenever I want.

In the future I can see myself doing open source projects or writing professionally but I can't see myself coding for 9 to 5 or swapping out my silly activities for a dayjob where I build someone else's thing.

[CodeMage]

If you don't mind my curiosity, what do you do for money?

[malonedotcc]

I'm a high-level office contractor, I work six-month contracts in corporate roles. Right now I'm an expediting officer, but I've been many things before that.