You can't ride that horse far. It's not about loving coding, it's about feeling sense of the code that solves a problem. You may love beautiful clean code, but that's require good craftsmanship. And you'll not get there without practice, mostly for fun.
You can code for money and be mediocre at it - find nine to five programming job and have a good hobby elsewhere. Or you can build software systems for enjoyment of cracking world problems (that's why I refuse cryptocurrency jobs - they create more problems than they solve) and be fulfilled and love coding so much to practice it in own free time for fun and have topics to discuss with others outside your main professional concern.
I compare that with writers. Almost everyone can write. People write for work, but only tiny percentage really enjoy this and are good enough to make serious money by being read by thousands.
You can't ride that horse far. It's not about loving coding, it's about feeling sense of the code that solves a problem. You may love beautiful clean code, but that's require good craftsmanship. And you'll not get there without practice, mostly for fun.
You can code for money and be mediocre at it - find nine to five programming job and have a good hobby elsewhere. Or you can build software systems for enjoyment of cracking world problems (that's why I refuse cryptocurrency jobs - they create more problems than they solve) and be fulfilled and love coding so much to practice it in own free time for fun and have topics to discuss with others outside your main professional concern.
I compare that with writers. Almost everyone can write. People write for work, but only tiny percentage really enjoy this and are good enough to make serious money by being read by thousands.
thanks for your insights!