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Re:Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer? by liquidise on Monday February 01, 2016 @12:21PM (#11013241)
> the only real downside is that there aren't enough hours in the day to do it

I opened this comment section just to write that line. When your hobby becomes your job, you never work a day in your life.

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Re:Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer? by vonmoltke on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:16PM (#11013824)
Assuming that you do not come to hate your hobby in the process. I know plenty of people who turned their hobby into a job and came to hate it because of all the other things they had to do for work that they avoided when it was just a hobby.

Plus, some of them were like me in that being told or required to do something, even if I would have done it anyway, instantly lowers the enjoyment of that activity a bit.

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