"These are some of the logos I have created" - judging by the results, I hope you are a better programmer than you are a designer. It's a nontrivial cost to st

"These are some of the logos I have created" - judging by the results, I hope you are a better programmer than you are a designer. It's a nontrivial cost to start from scratch as an artist, and there isn't much synergy between programming and design. As for some of the other things he suggests, photo editing and 3d modeling, you are basically learning a tool and enslaving yourself to the workflow of a certain program created by a certain company. Sure, you can switch to another tool, but again you are facing massive switch costs before you reach a decent productivity level. Programmers have it good, solid algorithm, design and debugging skills are universal and you can always tack the syntax of the day on top of them.