I feel a little excluded here — I had a coding job(-ish) when I was 16… Went on to becoming an very well educated member of the Graphic Communications/Printing industry, only buried by the truth that what I see as due diligence and hard work needed to be had (like studying hard) was not what my prospective employers cared for as they hired peers that lied on their resumes and gloated about — one even asked me to teach the the focus area I occupied for 5 yrs doing my masters because they were hired to do the job and they only had 15 minutes to be caught up.
I coded before I was even a teen, because it made sense when the world kept telling it should make sense, when clearly sense made apparent that unlike code, it does not.
I coded when I was a student, because it was the only way I was able to compensate and even outdo my peers on things asked of me I did not simply prefer to not do as told.
I coded as an adult, because I was too depressed to want to go back into a world that is full of at least innocent hypocrisy, and where gullible be who at least wondered, and burdened be who by no choice of their own is not designed to be able to brush it off and accept.
I never coded because I had a job, but I have seen enough of friends that did, and I know that hating your job for someone like me — designed to function well under very specific conditions and absolutely useless otherwise — it is the outcome I could not longer afford to (like most others) fake until I get over.
I’ve been job hunting, not the usual way, where my so called peers will easily fake their credentials and sign up to do everything exactly not what they read on that almost random job posting of 100s they templated over, and be randomly 
ed by agents of employe unequipped to figure out what they are hiring, or management too busy counting cheques than to actually wonder if they could be doing better with so called funny-people (ie awkward folks like myself) who failed to elicit trust by handshake or look them in the eye long enough like two dogs staring to claim the bone.
So while I never coded because I had a job, I am certain, that kind of job, I would have hated, and have suffered a long and lonely journey trying to change that dynamic to find the one I would not hate!
Update: Please feel free to take me up on this attempt for maybe Affecting Change.