This is a really, really ignorant comment. I learned to code in the classroom with no other motivation besides paid employment and wasn't "bored silly." I've made a very successful career for myself in the many years since.
Programmers are not different from other professions no matter how special you may feel.
> Programmers are not different from other professions no matter how special you may feel.
I find it odd how offended you seem by my post.
I don't think that programmers are any different from other professions in this sense. But the subject of this thread is about programming which is why I commented about that. It is just like other STEM subjects in that - a lot of people study them at university, but only a few people actually go on to work in the field they studied. Some studies find that only around 25% of STEM graduates actually go on to work in the field they studied.
There is absolutely a better way you could have phrased this. In fact, the easiest is to entirely remove your first sentence. You could make a counter-point, stating that not everyone is driven by external motivation, providing yourself as an anecdotal example.
Instead you provided an insult and then gave anecdotal evidence.
Programmers are not different from other professions no matter how special you may feel.