If you're interested, at least, you can try combining the two. I moved into technical writing full-time five years or so ago. I'd been a tech blogger before tha

If you're interested, at least, you can try combining the two. I moved into technical writing full-time five years or so ago. I'd been a tech blogger before that, just with my own sporadically-updated blog that I never quite figured out how to monetize despite it having hit what I'd consider "B-list status" (showing up on Techmeme occasionally, linked from bigger blogs, etc.); in an odd way, moving into documentation was monetizing the blog, since a startup came looking for me after their CEO read a few blog posts and liked them. This doesn't mean giving up creative writing, either; I still do that, and in fact started that first job with "so, uh, two weeks after the date you want me to start, I'm going to be attending a residential writing workshop in Lawrence, Kansas for two weeks; will that be a problem?" (It wasn't, fortunately.)