[danthewireman]

I did web development and graphic design for a couple decades, and wrote a few technology books (one of them was on DHTML, so this was a while ago). I'm now writing fiction, mostly fantasy. The $$ isn't quite where I'd like it to be, but it's getting better, and I'm 100x happier. My brain works with stories much more easily than it does with programming, in a much more satisfying way, and it took a long time to learn this. It's crazy to make this switch in my 50s, but it'd be crazier not to.

[greenie_beans]

This sounds kinda like me except i’m you when i’m 30, coding full-time and writing fiction on the side because it doesn’t pay. I’m hoping to turn writing fiction and non-fiction into a part-time job eventually, and maybe write some technical books along the way. Before working as a dev, i worked for a media company writing a bunch of shit and i hated it/felt like high school writing assignments with no autonomy, so i decided to protect that passion and turn my coding hobby into a full-time job. My goal is to have the freedom one day to write what i want and make some money doing. It makes sense to me to get good at writing and coding, and combine those things eventually. Just gotta be careful not to spend too much time coding.