Cool, generally people tell to make ur hobby ur job, I c u believe in reverse.
Best of luck to ur future.
Its nice to c a techy doc. half of d apparatus in O.T. u'll be able to fix
Thanks, but believe me, such contrast makes you a loner in your primary profession, rather than being percieved as a person with addon professional skill. Most students around me are submerged with their 1000-pages books, patient cases, post-graduate entrance studies, etc. and I find myself completely alone there. I hardly find myself of help to others given this situation.
Such isolations are harmful to me(or anybody in such situation) because you find absolutely no appreciation/approval for whatsoever you are doing. Most of my collegaues think that I am a gone-case because I am quite irregular with hospital postings, I am not that bright at my medical studies, etc. But the reality is different from this. To say the least, I am have my web services company. I have developed a state-or-art-software and I am chasing corporates and SMEs with good success.
You see, there is always a big price(and big reward) for choosing the difficult path and persisting through back-to-back failures. If you want to take your hobby as a job, then, speaking conservatively, you will have to pass through a terrific phase to make the hobby-job as the main source of your livelihood. I have lots more to share, but perhaps its too early to speak now
And yes, I have enjoyed every bit of the struggle in the last 3 years of my 'awakening'.
I would like to invite NucleusKore to share his views on this because I believe we are sharing a somewhat-similar situation.