>Yes, and when a computer does a core dump, it doesn't smell that bad.
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>>The best thing about making the move is that computers don't throw up on you.
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>Altho I work in a cath lab and do some fairly high-tech stuff, the rush of threading a wire down an artery and placing a stent and all that other stuff doesn't hold a candle to writing a cool routine. Must be burnout or something...

I had similar reasons - after five years of teaching maths in a high school, I switched to the keyboard. Not that I went out of my actual profession - I was entitled to both jobs by my degree - but there was a big difference in the outcome. I could do all the possible showbiz at the blackboard, but the results remained the same, and actually unknown. I couldn't know if I'm good or not, because the kids learned almost nothing - it was a school with a lower rating, and all the worst kids were there. I never knew if I actually taught them something, or someone else in my position could do much more. No feedback at all.

Now when you write a cool app, you see it work, and you see it work right away. If it doesn't, can't blame anyone else but yourself - and it teaches you a lot about work and results of work. Teaching (at least in a school like that) is just like singing in a hurricane - nobody can hear you, and you can't hear yourself; good or bad doesn't matter.