So I've been working as a programmer

For a while now, and I must say it's killing whatever passion I had for the art. It's a nice job, and it's not like I dislike doing it, don't get me wrong, but everything I code seems really trivial and non-important now. I'm too familiar with the language I work with. There are no surprises, no ambitions, there is no real joy.

Don't ever get a job, /prog/.

That's why you add secret viruses in your code that take over people's computers.

Then you can take over the world.

Or, do what I do and start a game company or whatever. Or join the Open Source movement and code whatever the hell you want. Though then you won't get paid. But then you can demand for people to donate, and claim it to be the reason why you haven't worked on the program in a while.