Not sure if I can answer quite the way some can.
Have been "musical" ever since I was a kid. Was picking songs out on the piano by the time I could reach the keys. Started lessons around age 6. Have played ever since, mostly church work but the last couple of years, no more church work but playing keys in a 3-piece jazz band.
Being a janitor payed the bills for quite a few years. Had a brief stint in electronics but made some poor decisions and didn't go all that far with it. Worked as a piano tech / tuner for a couple of decades. Even worked for a commodities brokerage for a few years helping to put out a nightly "trade alert" kind of thing. Of late, besides the jazz band, I've been trying to be a small farmer, something I always wanted to do when younger but never had the opportunity. Trying really hard to grow strawberries, limited success, plus a few other crops to sell at the farmers market.
My current joke is that I now have two avocations that pay next to nothing, music and farming.
I have way too many interests to ever hope to explore them all in one lifetime. Love science. Love medicine. Love cooking and baking. Love animals. Love plants and flowers, trees and veggies. Love some kinds of music and numerous instruments as well as messin' with recording. Love traveling and seeing new places. And more... It really is hard trying to choose a path and not second-guess myself to death, sticking it out long enough to see something come of it. Plus, now that I'm pushin' the age where I'm realizing that there are a lot less days ahead of me than behind... well, that doesn't help.
