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I just looked him up on GoodReads, I'll definitely check his stuff out. Thanks.

Oh definitely. I didn't know we were allowed to count that :)

I'd love to do the budget backpacking thing, I'm dying to see Europe. Hopefully when the kids are a couple of years older we can leave them w their grandma and take off to see the world for a few weeks.

I play music in my free time of course.

Jamming on weekends occasionally is much different than abandoning your day job and attempting to support yourself with music.

How did I know his advice would be a variation of 'do what you love'? I've heard it so many times, but am I supposed to quit my job as a developer that supports my wife and two young kids, and do something that I'm really passionate about, like starting a rock band? That's really tough, my wife would probably leave me and we'd have to move out of our nice, safe neighborhood.

Also - once you make your passion your ft job it then starts to get annoying. I remember when programming was my passion, and now it's just another job - who's to say the same thing wouldn't happen with filmmaking or music?

This has been posted multiple times already. We get it - programming is hard.