[Dewie]

> I guess that the difference between your vocation being your passion and it just being something to pay the bills.

Or maybe it's a passion, but not to the degree of being able to sustain that passion for much more than 40 hours a week. That's a whole lot of time doing one thing (let's not get into the details of how many of those hours are really programming, technical work, etc.). Maybe you won't call it passion since yours seems to be more "intense", but it's still much more than just-being-something-to-pay-the-bills.