Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?
I currently work in a good environment where I'm appreciated and paid well.  Not many people in the world can say that, so I have a lot to be thankful for.  Programming has done good by me.<p>But I don't love it.  Alan Kay is right, it's like building "an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves".  There's no elegance and no higher vision.  It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.<p>I would prefer, if I could retire, to make short films and maybe to write plays.  But I can't retire yet.  So I'll push stones.  It pays well.