Was interested in coding in younger years not now

The career trajectory we never planned for! First, you naively enter game development with stars in your eyes and a degree in hand. Then reality hits—80-hour weeks debugging collision detection, players complaining your water physics aren't "realistic enough," and that one producer who keeps saying "just one more feature." Before you know it, you're burnt out, staring at your IDE with the thousand-yard stare of someone who's implemented the same login screen 37 times. Finally, you reach enlightenment: reject complexity, embrace photosynthesis. Your plants don't have merge conflicts, don't need standups, and never ask "but can we make it pop more?" The ultimate escape from dependency hell is growing actual tomatoes instead of maintaining npm packages with tomato-related names.

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When your non-tech spouse thinks Googling C++ solutions is "cheating" while you're over here with 47 Stack Overflow tabs open at work. Welcome to programming in the real world, where we don't memorize pointer syntax—we just copy it from the internet like functioning adults. Should someone tell her that's literally the job description?

A dollar bill with "IN GOD WE TRUST" modified to read "IN GIT WE TRUST." Because let's face it, version control is the only thing standing between us and complete chaos. Your code might be worthless, but at least Git remembers what it looked like when it actually worked three commits ago. The true religion of developers isn't coffee or Stack Overflow—it's the ability to blame someone else via git blame.

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