I had a guidance counselor at 23. Paid her like $50 at a local
   college. Told her I was deciding between music and going into
   computers for money-making purposes. Both hobbies - I was
   volunteering full time at the local Cerebral Palsy center and
   wasn't working for money.

   At the time, I was starting a record label with a friend who
   made some recordings of my piano playing at different churches.
   We were gonna be HUGE!

   Anyway, she said I should "pursue both music and computers but
   consider this:"

   Which is better as a vocation?
   Which is better as an advocation?

   Did I choose well? Well, I chose computers but kept my heart in
   music and kept my compositions between me and my Muse as it
   were.

   Had I chosen music as money and computers as hobby, would I have
   been equally happy? Yes, I believe so. It was an equal choice
   and I still pursued both.

   But I am merely a Case Study, not a role model. I had a choice
   between two equal choices; and only had to choose "which route
   will I choose to make money with?" I was more willing to make
   compromises with computers and do things I wouldn't want to do
   with music, like kissing butt, smiling, doing tasks I'm assigned
   that I don't care for.

   For example, if I had to perform the same music over and over
   again, I would not have been happy.

   But if I had to do data entry (which I did a number of times in
   jobs) and do the same thing over and over again could I? Yes, I
   could, and I did, even though I had *wanted* to do programming,
   which I eventually did.