> If the only reason you build websites is to get paid then you're part of the problem.

This is absurd. I write code for a living, I enjoy solving problems and that is part of my job.

I do not write code in my free time. I play video games, go hiking or go to the beach and maybe read a book with dragons in.

That doesn't make me a problem. My job is not my life. Honestly it shouldn't be, it is not healthy imo

You can code in your free time without your job being your life, as you put it. For example, your hobby project might have nothing to do with your day job and just be something you want to make or that gives you pleasure to tinker with. If you don't really enjoy doing it of if there are other things you'd rather do then you don't have to do it, obviously, but this idea that you can either never code outside work hours or have an unhealthy relationship with your job is a false dichotomy.

You're competing against people who do. "Should" it be that way? It's not the employer's fault some prefer to spend their free time programming too ;)

i've been doing this since 2007 as a full-time career. I think my interest peaked around the ajax/jquery era and has been in steady decline ever since. i'm just bitter about becoming a web dinosaur.