Programmers do 'competitive sports', code golfing and what not. Sure there is a level that you can reach, but you can't make a living with code golf no matter how good you are.
Excavator jockeys hold egg peeling contests, and of course you need to be really good at that to be able to even begin to control a 30 ton excavator to peel an egg without squashing it.
The only reason you can earn money with running is because:
(a) everybody can do it (so we can all appreciate a good runner)
(b) we can judge your expertise by the clock (in 1/100th of a second, as if that matters)
But in the end that's very likely a large amount of innate ability and an even larger amount of training. Setting aside your life to be able to run a world record is in itself not worth anything to anybody - if you fail. But if you succeed we will place an inordinate amount of value on that because of media exposure and national prestige.
Running by itself has little to no value, even very fast running (unless you're trying to get away from that cheetah).
Programming is a useful thing, at almost every level of skill and the more you do it the better you become.
Excavator jockeys hold egg peeling contests, and of course you need to be really good at that to be able to even begin to control a 30 ton excavator to peel an egg without squashing it.
The only reason you can earn money with running is because:
(a) everybody can do it (so we can all appreciate a good runner)
(b) we can judge your expertise by the clock (in 1/100th of a second, as if that matters)
But in the end that's very likely a large amount of innate ability and an even larger amount of training. Setting aside your life to be able to run a world record is in itself not worth anything to anybody - if you fail. But if you succeed we will place an inordinate amount of value on that because of media exposure and national prestige.
Running by itself has little to no value, even very fast running (unless you're trying to get away from that cheetah).
Programming is a useful thing, at almost every level of skill and the more you do it the better you become.