also also chose game dev as a lil spite of "ha! fuck you parents for discouraging me from pursuing art as a career."

If I'm doomed to spend the rest of my adult life in a cubicle, I want to be doomed doing something I actually genuinely enjoy and am passionate about.

I lean more on the art side of things, hence also learning concept art, but the whole process, even the areas I'm not as good in (cough-programming-cough) have been really fun to learn.
it scratches that itch of needing to be in a creative problem solving environment where I'm constantly learning.

I also really love video games. playing them, watching people play them, picking them apart, etc. and I figured a good way to combine and grow all 3 of those skills (art, IT, gen love of video games) would be to just learn how to make them.

more lore. I was an IT for 12 years (in the military for 8 of those) and picked CS bc it was the "easy/expected" route bc im already familiar with that field.

But sticking with it also meant further neglecting what I really wanted to do, since my grubby lil baby hands could hold a pencil - art.