Why did you become a Developer?

Little programmable robots, and then it just escalated

Because it enables one to be a certain kind of god.
If it doesn't exist yet or you'd like to adjust it and you've got the skills, you can make/modify it. That's awesome.

I'm a Linux support engineer professionally though!

I am not able to do anything else, it annoys me. But beeing a dev feels natural

Majboori thi bc

Wanted to do game development, but decided it was too saturated; shifted to web stack and expanded from there.

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Because to be limited by a application configuration sucks.

I was just curious about how computer programs work... Initially, I changed some game configurations manually by editing the files using NotePad, then I installed GameMaker8 on my PC, and I created my games by my own... Then I discovered the GML (game maker language) and I wrote my games using that language... I decided to study computer science in high school, i learnt Assembly, C, Java and PHP... And now I'm a full-time developer in a medium/big company

Because I didn't know any better, and nobody warned me.

To have more time with my two kids

@soohoonigan this is the best answer

i needed some job

I liked making stuff on my own and decided to start making stuff, so I started dabbling with programming and hardware

I was studying mechanical engineering and found out that it was only interesting for studies and not as a job. So I changed to programming for which the job looked more appealing.

Because I like desk jobs and I like to create things. I also like having control over those I created.

And I have no interest in teaching, science, art, medicine, engineering, sports, army and politics.

A six-word question about my major has actually made me think: What the fuck have I been doing all this dabbling since third grade for?

The proper answer in my case is through a random set of coincidences. From a young age I'd always been curious about tech, whether it had been the buttons on our TV (old CRT, got in trouble for this as a child) or that one computer in the kindergarten classroom that we were NOT allowed to touch.

At the end of the chain of coincidences: I always fucking wanted to know HOW and WHY the software worked. I wanted to know what made it tick. And I wanted to know how the people that made it had designed what I now know to be the UI and UX (after I figured that out, I got bored and started struggling with the backend shit, which I don't know if I'll ever master 😂😂).

That curiosity dragged me in, and I've been entangled in it for almost the entirety of my 19.5 years of existance...

I was always interested in computers frowning up but didn’t pursue it.

Left the army after 12 years, trained to be a network/sysadmin. No jobs going so ended up on the support desk for a software company.

Started learning sql (for Work) which got me looking at web development as well (in my own time).

Moved to a more technical support role at another company, learnt more then finally landed an sql Developer role last year.

So, I guess you could say I got into it by accident.