i'm currently alternating between working a full-time job and being in university, both entirely unrelated to music. i have a fair amount of free time which i try to spend as much as possible on music. some days i feel like this situation is pretty good, but other days i feel like i am travelling down the completely wrong path, because i'm basically wasting enormous amounts of time on non-music. and when i look at all these professional musicians most of them went to music school instead of not-music school, and they got jobs related to music of course.
that doesn't strike me as the most common scenario. in fact i can't necessarily even think of anyone who's done it quite like that