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Here's my suggestion. No matter the field you work in, if you work for someone else, it's less fun and fulfilling than if you worked on your own ideas. If you switch to arts, the only difference is going to be that you might enjoy doing work for someone else a bit more. The trade off is going to be _a lot less money_ and potentially less time to work on your own ideas because you have to sustain yourself, your family and some quality of living. You could take a different approach. You can buy time with money, and you happen to be in a highly paid field, so you could either reduce your hours to part-time to maintain a level of income that allows you to pay the bills, or, alternatively, make a plan to optimize your CS career such that you can retire early by the time you're 37, while keeping arts as a hobby (e.g. get into a FAANG as a senior engineer at $275K+/year and save/invest wisely). Afterwards, you could go full-time working on your own art ideas, not for someone else. At 27, 37 feels like it's a lifetime away, but 10 years fly by _fast_, especially the older you get. That said, if you're posting here, I'm assuming you are semi-seriously willing to take such risk, and if there's a time for this risk to be taken, it's definitely now, while you're still in your 20s, because in your 30s not only do most people have a family (or at least a larger family than in their 20s), you have all sorts of bills to pay, including more medical bills. Just be mentally prepared to be permanently behind your colleagues professionally and financially in 5 years when you decide to come back and take a lower level job than you would have otherwise had if you stuck around in the CS field for those 5 years. |