> Poets choose to be poets knowing that they will most likely never be on stable financial ground. I chose to major in math without the expectation of ever hav

> Poets choose to be poets knowing that they will most likely never be on stable financial ground. I chose to major in math without the expectation of ever having some great financial payoff for the choice. I was so ignorant of money at the time that when I made that decision I probably would have considered $40k a huge salary. I was interested in programming when I was 12 and didn't have the slightest care in the world about money. I feel pretty lucky that interests that I've cultivated since a young age happened to turn into a high-paying comfortable career. I easily could have been like most of my friends and instead had interests that fulfilled me intellectually but didn't pay much at all.