Good luck to you. I gave up on the dream of being a FT touring musician at 24 after a handful of part time college fail/drop outs to become a designer full tim

Good luck to you. I gave up on the dream of being a FT touring musician at 24 after a handful of part time college fail/drop outs to become a designer full time. I had studied it in high school (I went to a Vo-tech HS) and practiced a bit of web design to make a little money between college and playing in bands. I've been working as a designer / front end developer for 5 years now and my work has taken me from my hometown in New England to Texas(where I met my wife), Nevada, and now Washington. About as far from home as I could have ever imagined. It is indeed still a creative existence, but in a much different way. I don't play music at all in my free time anymore, but I now play a lot of D&D, write (currently working on a screenplay and a book), record a podcast, and have creatively fulling software side projects that touch on interests I like. Dog related, mostly. Most of all, money isn't an issue anymore. A low point in my life was on tour digging change out of vending machines to get tacos from jack in the box. That life is behind me now and a lot of the folks who looked down on me for selling out are pushing 30 and living on their parents couch still, feigning rockstardom.