Programming strictly as a hobby

As a profession, it's terrible! But for your own personal interest and enjoyment, it's great.
Discuss.

can't think of a better profession than getting paid to build amazing things using the most powerful tool that's ever been invented. Computing is the only craft where the human is the only bottleneck. In everything else, you have to contend with limitations of physics, money, people, and so on. I love the freedom to build things in a more exciting way than anyone believes possible. Programming is largely a search for truth. If you can close the gap between perceived rules and the actual rules, then your program can do impossible things. Programming is much like math in that way, except when your program works, it can improve the lives of millions or billions of people.

The industrial revolution just finished, and it was all about amplifying sweat. fossil fuels and giant machines produce what physical toil never could. The computer is the first machine which amplifies all of human being's greatest powers: to understand, imagine, communicate and create at level of which we never could before. That is what is needed. Our needs material and mental are met. But our thirst for knowledge, and meaning are still vastly unfulfilled. Like a throbbing wet cunt. And I'm going to fuck it.