In my experience I've witnessed that engineers/programmers have two dominant hobbies: woodworking, and photography. (Followed closely by cooking.)
I don't know which is worse financially for the person, but I've seen tens of thousands of dollars thrown at both. I'm not going to comment out the results... oh who am I kidding, of COURSE I am. We know where this is headed and what I'm going to say. Lots of really crappy furniture made on Festool/SawStop/Powermatic tools, and lots of really crappy compositions taken with Zeiss glass and Leica bodies.
As everyone has heard (or will hear): tools don't make the artist.
I don't know which is worse financially for the person, but I've seen tens of thousands of dollars thrown at both. I'm not going to comment out the results... oh who am I kidding, of COURSE I am. We know where this is headed and what I'm going to say. Lots of really crappy furniture made on Festool/SawStop/Powermatic tools, and lots of really crappy compositions taken with Zeiss glass and Leica bodies.
As everyone has heard (or will hear): tools don't make the artist.