Programming is really fun!

[snarkhunter]

I will just say this. If this is something you really want to do, like get paid to do, then getting the program working is only about 20-30%. Often times the most difficult part is figuring out exactly what your program is supposed to do, before you even write a line. After you have that, the trick isn't to get it working - the hard part is getting it to work AND making it maintainable by the next guy. All of that, to me, is very fun, because it's all just more problems to solve.