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Just don't Google what "Wizard's Sleeve" means! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Builder.
We get to build new stuff - and are then lumbered with the maintenance and alterations. Sometimes, (if we are lucky), we get to knock it all down and start again. But most of the time we battle to tack on extensions to inadequate foundations.
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It's like being a sculptor. You hammer, chisel away, measure and try to figure out how to get the shape you want from the material you have.
All the while sweating and swearing.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Being a sculptor where the users choose the medium, but management already has picked out the paint brushes you have to use!
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This is true on so many levels... 
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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firefighter (on occasions!)
A new client calls you, you know nothing about the system which is DOWN and the client is losing £10k/hour. There is a certain amount of stress involved and you're in damage-limitation mode. Afterwards when things are wet and smouldering you step through doing a forensic investigation to find out what caused it all and then specify a new fire detection system and sprinklers.
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Doctor.
If the job gets exciting, it means something has gone badly wrong for someone.
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Like marriage...
At first it starts like a romantic dream, but soon enough, it becomes more like "accepting your fate".
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Cabinet Making. Sometimes you make a beautiful finely finished product. Sometimes you make a plywood box.
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"Blood Sweat and Tears"
ed
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A mental rollercoaster ride.
Just make sure you keep a copy of everything you developed so that when you need to develop something else a year later or more, you may be able to find the solution in your past applications; rather than spend hours or days searching Google only to find yourself wasting time because a large percentage of the posts do not work.
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On a good day, it's like being a mathematician. Usually it's like being a copy editor, and the text you're dealing with was written by a monkey and in some fake language that has rules so convoluted that you cannot remember more than half of the rules at the time.
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Dentistry.
Extract the bad stuff, fill it in with slightly less (in your opinion) bad stuff.
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As I tell people who need help with their PCs:
Programming is like writing a novel.
IT support is like operating a printing press.
Truth,
James
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I tell my kids that writing a complex C# program is like writing a novel except that if one word is misspelled then no one can read the entire thing.
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I compare it with manual blacksmith work: you have some pieces of code and are hammering on the keyboard til the mud (bugs) are out.
Maintenance is like reshaping a nail and support is horse shoe business. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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It is one step below being God: In what other profession would my Word create worlds?
And yes, I am perfectly serious.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Like being a combination of:
1 plumber
2 janitor
3 magician
4 flunky
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Artist or Creator 
I'm really bad at math, and while I sure would like to get better, it seems like I got a phobia.
But I got Google and the customers for any formulae they need in the system.
I believe that the most important part of my job, is to be able to envision the solution, and write readable and re-usable code, that I can recognize the purpose of, when I inevitably needs to revisit it 10 years in the future  (Not kidding, it happens too often these days).
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein
"God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
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The closest thing to coding is writing geometry proofs.
You start with a given state or inputs, and you want to reach a different result or output state.
The non-coding aspects of the job are covered well on other posts.
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I was reading that the Pope has a lot of pets. Apparently, he's a cataholic …
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I wonder if that goes against his religious dogma.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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He enjoys talking with a llama as well.
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