Perhaps a middle road? Stay in software and donate money and time to those researchers working on HCM. This is much like what I tell the younger people who wor

Perhaps a middle road? Stay in software and donate money and time to those researchers working on HCM. This is much like what I tell the younger people who work with me about pursuing art or the like: make money and make it a hobby you can love and pursue with the spare income and time your lucrative career affords you. By pursuing a lucrative software career and investing expertise and money in the people who have the expertise maybe you can find that middle ground.