Simple Question(s)

What do you do for a living, people of /prog/? Do you like it, and why? Would you recommend it to others, or no?

Advice or other comments are welcome as well, say as much as you'd like. If we can get a good number of decent posts in this one thread, then I can just save it and it will never have to be asked again, since if anyone else does I can just point them to a rafb.

Just that I'm sick of these things showing up, and this seemed like a good way to kill it in the future instead of wasting time.

I'm a welder making 17/hr with a 25 per diem. I used to study programming at a university, but I said fuck that when I realized programming doesn't pay the bills anymore.

Now I study instrumentation at a small two-year institution.