ADVICE

Don't program computers as a career if you want to keep it as a hobby. It's almost always really shit.

Probably very true, I've heard that about programming as well as basically "any" hobby.

But from another perspective, programming isn't where the big bucks are like most people believe. This is because it's becoming increasingly popular. It's not like it was 10 or 15 years ago when it was rare to find a programmer. Now days, half the people you meet on the internet can program in some kind of language. So I'd say the scarcity of it is declining rapidly, and without scarcity, there's little to gain in cash. So I would chalk that up as another big reason to never do it for a living.