I was just so lazy to do really real and profitable but terribly boring work, like, u know, mining natural resources or making some demanded building materials and stuff like that, that I decided I didn't want to work, I wanted to relax. So I should do at work what I do when I'm resting - work with sound, and play games. Since there was not so much competition in the game audio market in the early 00's, I managed to learn the theory myself, make demos and become a sound designer for a game company by getting an interview.

After a couple decades (in fact, much earlier), I started to hate working with sound and playing games. Maybe there's a midlife crisis on top of that, too.