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Well put, welshbyte!
Unfortunately, as some other posters have already pointed out, it's only that much fun when you're really hacking away at something you really want. If it's your job, and you've just finished building the 25 dataentry screen for the week, complete with some no-brainer entry validation code and fixed three bugs by the guy who left last month, then had your supervisor barge into your cubicle, whining that the background of that icon you made last week should really be slategreen and not maroon....well, then you realize that programming as a job just might not be the creative expressionism you were expecting it to be.
Now I'm overdramatizing things here, of course. If you're lucky and get a job programming something very neat (whatever tickles your fancy the most), then you'll love your job and won't even notice the hours pass by. I know, cos I'm lucky enough at this moment to have a job like that. But my past experiences have taught me that programming isn't always fun.
This is just to put things into perspective a little.
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