What would a programmer rather work on. Some boring app for someone else, or an app to solve a problem he has of his own.

What is more enjoyable, working on the language and database dictated by work, or whatever tech he wants to use.

As long as a person gets out of bed and does a days work doing something productive in some way, it doesn't matter that it's not traditional work.

I feel like most people who got into programming because they liked it (rather than for money) feel this way. I certainly don’t wanna be solving the same problems over and over again.