> If you're so uninterested by your work that thinking about it after 6pm makes you sick, why did you pick it?

I have multiple competing interests and code + tech adjacent skills are the ones that people will pay for. I also didn't pick it: I'm a 2nd generation programmer and it was taught to me as a basic life skill starting as a toddler.

Not everybody gets into a profession for the same reasons or in the same way.