Noah Ryan, Three by Annie Dillard

Work is of great importance in our lives. Our work-obsessed culture has us working 40+ hours a week for our entire lives. Even people who do not "work" in the sense of having a job still has to make a living somehow. This could mean farming, hunting, gathering, or some of each. The relationship of a person to their way of making a living is vitally important in one's life. Writing transforms Dillard into a writer, painting turns one into a painter. If one's work is dull and unsatisfying it is a great dullness and emptiness in one's life. The opposite of this would be something profoundly fulfilling that doesn't occupy one's life, but rather consumes it. It seems that this would be a sort of I-You relationship with making a living. If, for example, working is done in a ritual context, say some sort of sacred hunt, then it is engaging the person the landscape and the animal in a way that can be very meaningful for the person (and the landscape and animal too, if we step outside of the western mindset and allow them to have agency in this affair). The point I'm trying to make here is that while some may find an subject that interests them, and they may spend their lives doing that thing, many people do not have that opportunity. If we are shaped by our jobs, in the sense that the relationship between the I and the You or It is reciprocal and shapes us, then the vast majority of jobs available are not ones that tend to create full and mature people.
I for one am excited to find out what programming makes me (I'll bet its a programmer), but I'm also wary of the structure of our jobs and the void that they may bring.