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If you don't like web development, learn something else. The only reason you're not doing something you love is because you haven't put in the effort.

Right now, I write fault-tolerant, distributed systems in Go for a living. I really enjoy it. But a decade ago, my first programming jobs were building websites in ASP (pre-.NET), PHP, and ColdFusion for a little over minimum wage. There are truly very few software tasks worse than writing ColdFusion.

I now count myself as proficient in a number of languages and I've done all kinds of different things over the course of my career. My latest side project is learning game development. Maybe my next job will be doing that?

If you don't like what you do, make the choice to do something else, then take the steps to make that goal a reality. You never know where you'll end up, unless you lack the energy or courage to try.



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