I take it the poster doesn't have children. I'll take taking care of my kids anyday. I'll be looking at code for the rest of my working life one way or another but my kids, they are my joy!

How exactly can this be new or newsworthy?
I saw a demonstration 20 years ago almost to the day where guys from the swedish equivalent of NSA captured keystrokes from a Mac Plus at 300 meters distance (I was working in military research at the time).
As a consequence we built a room paneled entirly in copper, with copper chicken wire across the windows and baffled air vents.
Opto-couplers for the phone lines and stabilizers for the power and we were emission free. The whole TEMPEST package.

This may sound crazy given the current times, but what about the financial industry? There are a host of interesting problems to work on: high volume, low latency transaction systems for the stock market, low latency network applications for information feeds between various parts of the financial world, high reliability systems and so on.
And when you grow tired of coding, there are always a spot for a coder turned project manager (they are rare and seems to be treasured).
I ended up in the financial software trade by accident and I've never regretted it.