Thank you Jason sharing your thoughts and mind about being / becoming a developer, hopefully many will take a moment to read and think about it.
As I’m 31 by now, I started learning C/C++ as I was a young gun, but in the past wasn’t able to realize my passion into programming the professional way…anyway, now I’ve learned a lot of things, some of them good some of them bad, just maybe same like you…but today I’m happy that I never stopped learning and taking hands on projects.