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+1, I say this all the time. Are plumbers "passionate" about their jobs? Did the garbage man end up in his role because of his childhood love of moving garbage? No. So in a world where you'll likely have to drudge through some form of employment, you might as well learn a well paid, _actually valuable_ trade that you get to do from an air conditioned office.
Except as a tradesman you don't need to constantly learn new skills from a very fast moving industry, or frequently dedicate your free time to side-projects and the like just to be employable
You don't need to do this as a dev either. You could easily be doing Cobol at a bank since the 70s until now.