Me too
But I think in retrospect I should have stayed in the music biz.
I'm a fair to middlin recording engineer, song writer, producer, guitarist, and gadget/synth programmer. Had I dedicated all my efforts to it (and moved to LA to work on breaking into the recording scene) I suspect I might have penetrated to some level of self sufficiency by now. I have found that the power source to write software and to create music is the same. I can't do both at the same time.
Foolishly, I studied engineering thinking that engineers designed things and that engineering was a creative endeavor at some level. Imagine my dismay when I found that so much of it was following handbooks and recipes. I need creative outlets.
Now I do software for money. I don't much care for it as the creativity has been "engineered" out of it. At the place I am now I doubt I'll write 50 lines of code this year. Its all process process process and everything is locked down.
