Well this has been visited and chronicled to death. How does one justify the decision to adopt a career path that follows the heart? As we progress in our various professions, which assumingly feed the mouth but not the head, ones opportunity cost to venture beyond the comfort zone gets compounded. I recently contemplated switching from the (hardly) comfortable zone of building design and construction management to gaming, but was told that my monthly renumeration will be halved. Unless one is so darn good in the realms of digital art and 3d, a trait which is unlikely unless you work at it full time, do expect a drastic change in lifestyle. Y