I guess I am a combination. I make a living doing multimedia production, mostly visual media. Of course that includes audio. Most of the audio in my projects are mixed in Sonar. I make music on my own as a hobbyist but occasionally create musical content for clients. I do work/volunteer at a studio. Most of my mixing there is on Logic but I often bring mixes home and use Sonar.

Sixfinger
Most of my life I've been a full time guitar player, had a 3 year stint with David Allan Coe... oh the stories lol. 

I saw him once when he warmed up for Neil Young. Maybe I have seen you play live lol

Very cool thread!  I'll probably go back and re-read a few since some of y'all have had some really interesting stories...
 
I guess like many I'm somewhere between 1 & 2.  I've been playing music in some form and on some instrument since I was seven, which makes it....  geez, just over 45 years now.     In my twenties I played in a band full time, touring the northeast quadrant of the US.  My most notable gigs through the 80's and 90's were opening for Jan & Dean in Allentown PA and for Kenny Rogers in Atlantic City NJ, with a PBS special backing up The Silhouettes (of "Get a Job" fame) and working with R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp and headliner Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes as memorable moments.
 
But for the past 17 years my day job has been tech support at a fairly large ($600M) software company... though not music software unfortunately.    I have made a little money along the way from my small bedroom studio, mainly from mixing and overdubs - no room or treatment to do live band recordings.  Still looking for opportunities here and there to supplement cash flow though not a real priority.  Otherwise I still play part-time in a blues band to keep the chops in semi-working condition and spend what little free time I have working in SONAR... which just keeps getting better and better.    
 

Played 'music' since 10 years old, my dad bought a Bontempi organ then got bored so I started my journey...my expensive journey!
 
I upgraded from the Bontempi to a Yamaha PSR something or other, then at age 17 I entered the synth world with a DX100 and never looked back.
 
One part of the journey that always sticks in my mind is always wanting a DX7 but not having the money to buy one, but once I did have the finances to buy one I didn't want one anymore, there were so many advances by then that an FM only synth wasn't appealing any more unless it was cheap.
 
Career-wise I entered electrical/electronic engineering at 16 and I'm currently a systems engineer who works with servo drives/programmable logic controllers etc.

Music started to become more and more a part of my life from age 8 then recording and studio once I hit 14. My musical/audio life is one of - it could have been if I'd made the other choice. Never mind so I spent 30 years of my life nursing and about 10 years in audio wholesale.
In parallel to making a living I've always spent nearly as much time making music and or being involved in audio work.
Played in bands/ solo earning money, mixed front of house earning money, have a home studio earning money and using Cakewalk since Audio 7.
Been retired for medical reasons for about 4 or 5 years now (61 years old) and probably spend too much time on the forum instead of making music
Regrets: I've played a lot of music live, bands and solo, FOH, and recorded others, mixed and mastered all sorts of projects but haven't recorded any of my own material. Must be my turn soon. And not to forget I really enjoy helping the folks on the forum.

Hobbyist, sell Cognac as a daytime job.

Also play guitar in a Thin Lizzy style group (hence avatar).

Just changed drummers ......... Got a sax player now, i have recorded us and mixed us in the past. Will be doing so in the future.

Cheers,
J

A serious Hobbyist.  I'm serious:)
 
You know, the singer-songwriter type trying to get my music out there and hoping someone wants to hear it.
 
 

Trade shows.