[WingedPanther]

I work as a programmer where I almost never (2 times/year-ish) work outside normal business hours. It's a question of where you work, not what your job is. Personally, I prefer solving "real problems" to doing theoretical research. On the other hand, my dad worked for many years as a programmer and got a kick out of discussions about technologies that would "be developed in the next 5-10 years" that they had running a few years back.