I'm a programmer at a nonprofit. I was working on a PhD in math for a few years, but I didn't have time to do both and family obligations demanded more money than I could get as a research assistant, so I stuck with the job. It's not interesting work, and I get paid a bit less than I would at a for-profit tech company, but I have enough to help out my family, and enough time and money left to study math as an avocation. I'd rather be doing math full-time, but I'm content enough. I did feel like there was a clock ticking when I was younger, after reading Hardy and internalizing the idea that I had until I was 30 to do anything that mattered. I'm not quite 30 yet, but I stopped believing that in graduate school and sometime after that stopped feeling like there was a deadline looming over me.