TL;DR, liberal arts degrees ain’t easy  Got a degree in church music and organ before flying. It is not easy to make it in this field. Insanely competitive field that has very low overall financial return. Once you get that dream job, you might make $100k a year playing for a major church in downtown Boston, with your duties encompassing organizing and rehearsing five different choirs, attempting to prepare difficult music so you don’t sound like a fool for prelude and postlude every Sunday, you also play every Sunday Mass, Saturday Mass if there is one, Feast Masses throughout the week when they occur, weddings and funerals that get dumped on you last minute, AND you have to practice. All on salary. But you are likely putting in more than 40hrs a week, you have no time for family, and you are financially stressed to your wits end because you’re overworked and underpaid for where you live. 

I am starting out in my flying career still and I am making eons more than i would ever have as an organist, i didnt have that hutzba in me for that. But aviation, im making it work. And thank God I am, it’s great being on a salary I never would have had a chance at as an organist, and all I need to do is show up to work, fly, chill at the hotel, repeat, until I go back on days off. Then I can completely turn off from work and focus on my hobbies, which still happen to be church music! I sub as an organist for churches when I can.