On the long term, having a job you're able to feel passionate about helps a lot.

"Passionate" is usually BS for "has no boundaries and is willing to work overtime for free".

I love my job, and I leave work at work so it stays that way.

Agreed about the general BS meaning of "passion", but in this case I meant "liking software and building things with it". People maintaining legacy corporate systems written in COBOL -- the most common usage of this language -- don't exactly belong in this category. Which, as I said before, is perfectly fine: not everyone has to like software, maybe a job is just a job and you just need the paycheck. But all those recurrent articles praising COBOL somehow manage to forget this...