It's highly subjective.
I doubt very much you share my profound regret of having spent so much of my brief life seated in front of a display screen, hacking away at a keyboard. To be sure, doing that allowed me to provide my family with many, many things that my father never could. In the end, though, was it worth the cost? I'd answer in the negative - which I'd bet my last nickel makes me a minority of one on this board and colors my view on time spent video gaming. Back in grad school (circa 1994 or 5), I took a course on neural networking. It was taught by a physics prof and we built a piece of software that was plugged into a multi-node system that simulated a neuron during an epileptic seizure. I was chatting with the prof one day and the topic of my job as a programmer came up. I'd had him in a handful of physics courses both as an undergrad and grad student and, knowing my general disdain for all things IT, he was surprised to hear I was a computer programmer. "YOU are a computer programmer?" he asked. "Yes," I replied. He asked, "How did that happen?" I replied, "It was a horrible accident. There were no survivors." I haven't really deviated much from that sentiment since.
