If you could do any work you wanted, would it be the work you're currently doing? If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have definitively said no. I suspect many of my friends would say the same. There's just something about the idea of work in general, wherein it's taken for granted that it's not something anyone wants to doit's just something we have to do. When I was a kid, my first exposure to programming was via BASIC on a Commodore 64. It was the 90s, so the Commodore was already outdated in the age of the first Pentiums. But that's all I had. I spent hours and hours programming silly things, for no other reason than that I found it fun and interesting. And now I'm making a game. And to be honest, I'm having fun making it. But I still struggle with the idea of selling it. In a perfect world, I'd be giving away everything I made for free, hoping that people enjoying it would be a nice bonus. But when I told a friend that I was making a game, one of the first things she said was, "I'm totally buying it!" Naturally, I loved her enthusiasm. But implicit in it was the assumption that the only reason for doing any of this was to sell what I was making. And the conversation continued like this: Me: "I'm thinking about just giving it away for free." Her: "But why?" Me: "I dont know if it's a 'sellable' type of thing." Her: "How long would it take to make it sellable?" That last question made me kind of... sad. It's the idea that if I do something creative, by default, it has to be monetized in some way. And more importantly, it implies that wanting to do something in life rarely correlates with needing to do something in life. But I'd be lying if I said the thought of selling games for a living hadn't crossed my mind. There's that insecure part of me that says, "No one is going to buy this crap!" I suspect, as a first-time developer, that I won't be selling a ton of copies, and that ultimately, my game will disappear into the deluge of Steam's catalog of games with 0 reviews. I wonder if other game developers feel this way about what they make. And I know that, deep down, I'll most likely have to find a "normal" job again.