It's weird, but being in IT for most of my career, I'm generally fixing stuff pretty much all the time. It's weird how little credit (and money) you get for making sure shit doesn't break (and fixing it quickly if it does).
I guess it's harder to quantify than some numbskull who rakes in a load of sales and gets a proportional cut.
Anyway, I've been coding some tools recently, and I really love coding. It's like problem solving, but more to the point, at the end of the day you end up with something you can ... not touch, but y'know. It's there. It's a thing.
I could get used to that feeling.