I'm a musician. I soon found out that making my living as a free & independent creator is a pipe dream.

So I worked jobs. But working only for money is no fun at all.

I did all sorts of weird things for 2 decades before I finally found a job that I can actually get, and that I like to do, and that is ethically sound. I've been doing it for almost 15 years now.

I prefer to make music on my own terms, with absolutely no pressure whatsoever.

If there's some advice in this story I guess it's that you are allowed to take your sweet time with everything, and sometimes when you think "I have to make a decision" the good stuff happens while you're still working on that.

BTW, firefighter sounds like a nice job, not only the ethics of it (which is super important), also the actual work. No?

BTW again, some people say that 8h 5 days a week is too much. I tend to agree.