Advice on a passion

[Noah Santer]

I'm curious what people's input is on moving beyond DIY and getting into the professional industry.

I'm a highly skilled programmer with systems experience and hardware design knowledge (think FPGA), I have solid knowledge of audio technologies (amplifiers, loudspeakers, modeling, etc.) and related algorithms.

Trouble is, I don't have a degree in anything--plenty of student loan debt, though, but not much to show for it.

Audio is my passion, where do I go to get there? Just wondering what the general take is.

 

[oohms]

The safest way is always to have a day job to rely on, and keep audio as a passion. That way you can always develop a product in your own spare time without the financial stress.

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/57780-making-living-out-tubes-little-off-topic.html

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[oohms]

Also with your skill set, you can look at designing microcontroller based DSP and preamp solutions (something like the DCX2496 with a built in preamp would be kickass)