Comment by munksbeer

There are more types of people. I do it because it is lucrative, because it turns out I'm good at being a professional software engineer, but I also enjoy it more than other things I could be doing.

However, ultimately, I got into software because I was intellectually curious and programming was a tool I could use to explore that curiosity. When I stop working professionally, I will stop caring about the sorts of stuff I care about today and go back to using programming for what I love. A tool to explore.