Them's fightin' words, around here...
I used to be a musician (a fairly good bass player[0] -Don't laugh. That hair was the height of fashion, at the time).
I used to be an artist (a fairly good one[1]).
I ended up sidelining both of them for writing software. I don't really regret that, but writing software for other people really sucked. Sucked like a galaxy-core, supermassive black hole. I worked for a company that took Quality seriously, so I didn't have to deal with the internal shame of deliberately releasing crap software. I probably would have gone nuts, if that had been the case, and no amount of money would have fixed it.
I now write the software that I want to write, on my terms. It's a joy. I have to keep the scope pretty humble, but I have been having the time of my life.