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I can picture in my mind the image of a mechanic that likes and enjoys fixing things. But I do wonder how much of it is real joy. At the end of the day what drives most people is that they want to satisfytheir human needs. bring food to the table. That's life for most people on Earth, then can find meaning elsewhere. And even those who are "passionate", as I said, I do wonder how much of it is pure fun. I asked doctors and engineers about this before, many of them don't feel the constant passion that I see in the picture I imagined. Again, it's a small percentage of the time. When you see a happy patient, when things go as expected, when the final test passes... But what drives most people isn't passion. It's responsiblities and satisfying human needs. And can probably become a great software engineer without falling in love with programming. I'm probably over-analysing what you said though, I do get what you say.

> "Coding isn't the hard part, it's the challenging part"

So what you're saying that it's a challenging part but not the hardest part? If so, that sounds fair as a take to me. But I don't get your point about "if you enjoy the challenge then it's easy". And It feels to me it's the opposite. You'd only start enjoying it once you've spend a lot of time practicing and honing your skills. (and I don't think it's that fun, it's like... 5% of the time fun? i.e. when you suddenly understand a bug or something or when all of tests pass in TDD)

by the way it feels to me that teaching is one of the most satisfying jobs on earth, you could (and should) be passionate for hours long in front of your students, that's amazing. as a programmer it seems you'd only feel passionate for like 5% of your work, even before AI it wasn't all that joyful, you had to attend boring meetings, debug legacy code bases, trying to make sense of the bad decisions other made (including yourself), it's fine, it brings food to the table. I think the myth of "passion" has affected way too many youngesters though. You can find meaning in many things in life, and there are already way too many people who kept chasing their "passion" yet at the end realized it didn't bring them real happiness. Maybe this AI thing is good for us after all, maybe we should take a pause and answer the harder question.

Edit: and yeah, even teachers probably have lots of chores and boring parts of the job.

might be a good chance to sit with yourself and understand what you want to do in this life, we often think there is only one path in life and seek success as defined by society. Most of us neglect ourselves way too much, thinking we're seeking the right thing. It's a problem if we can only find joy in life in trivial things like work or even hobbies. It means we might be disconnected from ourselves. Also If you feel you need professional help you absolutely should seek it. Healing in this toxic society does take a lot of time and professional help can be really good sometimes.

From what I learned, a disorder is defined as a condition that significantly impairs a person's daily life. And autism is not always a disorder. That's why "autism spectrum" is considered a better term.

> ... Because this actually leads to a distorted understanding of programming languages. So it's not always that simple; it's not either "terms don't matter" or "I'll kill you if you misuse it!".

what do you mean?