You design an extremely illegal piece of software that makes you a BitCoin billionaire. Your software is so "successful" that the FBI tracks you down and throws your butt in prison. Goodbye, coding; hello, teaching your fellow inmates how to do the Downward Dog.

You hate your job as a coder so much that you become a system administrator instead. You take joy in watching your former colleagues freak out every time the company servers crash.

You started work as a junior coder at a startup last month. This is your first official coding job…and, even though you have a degree in computer science, you really have no idea what you're doing.

You're a lead developer at a Bay Area startup. You love your job and make pretty good money, but you can still barely afford the rent on your San Francisco apartment.

Your startup's initial public offering (IPO) brings $20 billion in fresh capital into your company. Congratulations, you out-IPO'd Facebook. You're the next Mark Zuckerberg.