I am a java programmer since the year 2000, working in java for living since 2003. I love spring and microservices but in fact I did not do this all the time.
After changing my job recently I was given a change to discover microservices world. This is fun!
I started doing programming for a living in 1996, doing embedded application in C on pSOS running on MC68HC11 and 256kB of memory. That was a lot of fun! in 2000 I started my romance with Java but was still doing majority of work in C++.
When I do my work I often listen to chillout and jazz, this allows me to focus on what I am doing and isolate from outside world.