Exactly...my wife struggles with the judgement of her former co-workers/classmates who deride her decision to forgo a career coding for some megacorp...I don't really get why there is such hoopla over going to work and trading your precious time for some money...I get why it is necessary, but not why it is celebrated as a defining thing about a person...a company can easily find someone else who can build/maintain their simple CRUD app, your kid cannot as easily find replacement parents.