Went back to school after trying a LOT of different things with the first half of my 20's... Now I'm a full time student, do some remodeling projects on the side, my real passion is making mobile video games with a game engine called Unity 3d, making 3d models with blender or 3ds max, and it's hella fun/empowering.
My favorite thing was dismantling 100 year old barns for the lumber (wormy chestnut, cherry, walnut, etc), taking it down piece by piece and just discovering tons of cool shit. Most money I made was getting a general contractors license and with 8 illegal mexicans doing drywall for a developer. I actually like drywall, smoke a bowl and groove with the mud, it's relaxing.
I used to buy logs/burls from amish guys and mill them myself with a friend who had a woodmizer, I got this oak burl for $30
This was my first barn taken down and it took me hours to load it on the flatbed with a bobcat I rented, I got the semi on Uship for $4300 to take it from eastern OH to the west coast
<--Im standing in the top at the ridge of the roof. Dismantled it with a sawzall.
Wormy chestnut siding on a barn I bought and dismantled.
It's worth a fucking ton of money since a blight killed off the trees back in 1904.
I've been so lucky in that if I had an idea, I'd do it, random spontaneous shit, but it was always an adventure. I'm too generous and have been burned a lot, but fuck life's short so you just gotta get out there and figure out your real passions.