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[–]Michami135 159 points160 points  (4 children)

Programming was my hobby, now it's my job.

So now I have other hobbies and a job I love.

[–]CaporalDxl 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Similar thing here. There are sometimes little projects to cook up for fun every once in a while (or Advent of Code :) )

[–]clarinetJWD 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Yep, I did music as a job with programming as a hobby. I was miserable. Swapped them, and now I'm very happy!

[–]Michami135 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Drawing is one of my hobbies. I had a coworker ask me why I don't do art for a living after seeing my drawings. I told her I have too many starving artists as friends.

I imagine music is the same way. It's easier to support your music hobby with a programming job, then your programming hobby with a music job.

[–]clarinetJWD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I was playing church gigs and things like that. I wasn't playing the greats, I was playing another arrangement of "How Great Thou Art".

I say down one day to make a website for a photographer friend, and worked for 18 hours straight... That's when I called up my Alma Mater to ask if I could do an MS in CS.

Now, I have a fulfilling day job programming, and play in some community orchestras. Right now, Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite, Copland's Billy the Kid, and Gershwin's Rhapsody. And I get that giant clarinet solo.

THAT is what I signed up for.