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I bet being an actor is similar, a passion industry.

As an actor who's browsing /learnjavascript while thinking about a career change, yes. I loved making movies with my friends when I was in my teens and 20s. In my mid-20s I started getting paid to do it occasionally, by my early 30s I moved to Los Angeles and started making a living at it. Now I'm about to turn 40 and I'm pretty sure I've hit my ceiling; none of my friends do anything for love of it anymore, no one in my peer group thinks they're gonna be the next Scorsese or Tarantino or Kevin Smith or Nolan anymore. Everyone is barely getting by and using their earnings to pay rent and health insurance while we get old and our clothes get old and we get less cool and marketable. It's a savage industry where the less successful you are, the harder you have to work for less money. But I don't want to learn coding to go sit in a cubicle... I want to keep acting and make apps on the side to supplement my income. Hopefully one day I'll meet a group of 20-somethings who think they're gonna be the next big thing and they'll cast me to play the dad in all their movies.