[5040]

>should we really be surprised that unpaid labor is hard to find?

Music is mostly unpaid labor and there's no shortage of musicians.

[dingnuts]

making music is a lot more fun than making software and way more immediately, personally, and emotionally fulfilling

I say this as an accomplished programmer and an absolutely shit musician. the parts of programming that are fun and the parts that make money, also, have almost no overlap whatsoever

lucrative business problems that are also fun or interesting computer science problems are so rare that whole companies are built around a single interesting CS problem surrounded by a fleet of mundane business problems

[shiroiushi]

>I say this as an accomplished programmer and an absolutely shit musician. the parts of programming that are fun and the parts that make money, also, have almost no overlap whatsoever

This hasn't been my experience. While it's certainly true that much of my time as a corporate cog has been wasted in non-fun things like department meetings and stand-ups and Jira and MS Office documents and reviewing or debugging bad code from other devs, there's also been some time working on genuinely interesting programming problems.

But you're right about music: interesting programming assignments don't come along every day, whereas I can pick up my guitar at any time and play something (however badly) and hear something nice right away.