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Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you were nursing at that particular juncture of your life.Take my friend the ER doctor in Chicago. He’ll tell you he went into medicine to help people. The truth? He became an ER doctor because he’s the kind of person who cannot do the same thing twice. He requires the chaos and strangeness of a city emergency room the way a 90s sitcom dad needs a beer and to watch the game. Helping people is a delightful side-effect of his pathological need to never sit still.I fell in love with tech work the same way a 13-year-old falls in love with anything. It was the late-90s, and I was in a small-town computer shop that smelled of burnt ozone, cheap carpet, and cups of noodles. I didn’t love technology as its own thing. I didn’t believe it was a…