You're entitled to that opinion.

Do you want people telling you how good you are

No, I'm trying to understand whether I'm making a correct choice.

Of course everyone will tell you to "do the work you like"

Actually, dragonchild didn't say exactly that in Re: Money vs. Perl, and believe me that his comment got me thinking a lot about it all.

subsitute all "Perl" words with "BMW", you get the exact same replies on a BMW-lovers forum

Probably so, but I *am* a Perl-lover, and not a BMW-lover, and moreover, this is the community I love and the one I trust. If you don't like it, or if this is not the sort of thread you're interested in, there's always the SoPW and several other interesting sections on this site.