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I used to dabble in coding. Never done it professionally. To be a full time developer would probably kill me, I remember constantly thinking of how to build this or that function, or how to do a certain thing, or why something keeps failing. I'd constantly be thinking these things, in the shower, while brushing my teeth, while driving, it was making me insane. Don't think I could do it professionally.
Personally, I enjoy the problem solving. Debugging is fun once you're good at it (and when there isn't major time pressures).
Professional software dev is also waaaaay more than just coding, too. And the more you do it, the less coding you'll do. A junior dev might spend most of their time coding, but senior devs are spending a lot of time doing high level design, helping the juniors, and reviewing various kinds of things.
...well, I do that, and enjoy it, so I guess that's why I feel like an impostor that has my hobby for a job. "If they figure out how much I enjoy doing this, they'll cut my pay..."
Well, the second I clock out I'll stop thinking about how to solve a coding problem for work.
(Instead I'll start thinking about how to solve a coding problem for a ~~never to be finished~~ hobby project.)
This seems more likely thinking about it, before I was doing coding as a hobby. If I was working on something at work that I wasn't particularly passionate about I may not obsess as much.
I remember being like that when I was learning, I literally couldn't get problems out of my head, my brain would be trying to solve a code issue while I'm trying to sleep.
Now I do it everyday it's learnt to just switch off when I'm done for the day (most of the time).