Is this really the life you wanted?

Did you, as a kid, say to yourself "I want to be a total fucking loser when I grow up!"? Probably not, but yet here you are, cranking out strings of symbols to tell a computer what to do. How sad.

Yes. When I was nine, I picked up a book at the public library about fractals, and wanted to make them. I didn't have a computer, so I wrote programs on paper until high school.

But I do dislike being a professional programmer. It's dull repetition. How many stupid classes have I made, how many ENTERPRISE inventory systems, and glorified database frontends? It's much better to be a hobby programmer.

My true wish for my career would be either the best mangaka in all of nippon, or a little girl fashion designer. Neither will ever happen, so I can only keep working for the Man.