In my youth, I refused to work in a non-music-related job - meaning, of course, that a lot of the time, I didn't work. It was great! Then I got myself a few kids, and they wanted to eat, so.....17 years of getting up at 0420 to go do crap I hated. Then laid off & back to school & 1.5 years of part-time, catch-as-catch-can. Tomorrow I will be working full-time for the first time in 6.5 years. I don't think I'll like being an archivist quite as much as doing sound, but I guaran-damn-tee it'll be a ton better than driving a truck! And while my recent idleness has rendered our finacial straits rather dire, I find I still enjoy not working (and it's even better with a well-paid wife, so I could be a bum living in a nice old Victorian house rather than in my car, as was often the case back then)
Peter