Is he getting paid? At the the of the day that’s the only reason I write code or do anything else once I get out of bed, walk over to the next room and log onto my computer.

Before the pearl clutching starts about Mr lack of coding ability. I started coding in 1986 in assembly on an Apple //e and spent the first dozen years of my career doing C and C++ bit twiddling

His claim is that he is learning, not if he's making money or not.