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Played in ska bands as a teenager... was trained by youtubes.

Nicely done!

Check out this one too (its not by me):
http://kanagawarocks.bandcamp.com

Kind of shoegaze + post rock + ambient noise + chiptunes...

This is where you start to see the downside of using MIDI-based stuff like Chipsounds instead of trackers or actual hardware. I sometimes make my bending notes in Famitracker and then sample them into the song instead of trying to fake it with chipsounds. Still, you can't deny that having everything in your DAWs is so awesome for remixing or transposing stuff.

Nice!! SQL is a fun language. It's like pure logic, no worrying about displaying stuff, interacting with drivers or even user's opinion of workflow.

If you want to get into programming, I say you're better off locking yourself in your room for 6 months with some .net, sql and php books. You could learn enough in that time period to get started as a programmer. All I learned in college is that there are still people who think you should learn COBOL in 2005.

It's a rough industry, at the start I was spending 4-5 hours a day just marketing myslef, and 20 hours would maybe net me one small job, but it worked...making the music is only like 20% of the work/complexity...oh, also helps if you donate to their KS first

Up until a year and a half ago, I worked full time as a Database Admin/Manager for large banks. I was able to quit and do what i call "living off the Internet" full time. I can't say I do music full time nor any of my other jobs, but between writing for blogs, writing music (mostly for iOS platform games), sound design, designing levels for games, translating websites, and doing contractor programming jobs, I pay my bills and make close to what I did at the bank. Music actually makes the most, but I will say, if all I did was chiptune, I'd only make like $1000 a year Also, most people don't want authentic chiptune, they want watered down fake bit stuff or OC remix kind of things. It's still fun though. I try to do something interesting even if its for a boring preschooler game.

It's not always easy to do music and sound design for a job. It is work; It gets exhausting and you run out of creative energy sometimes. Also its very up and down, one month, I might have 4 clients with games coming out who need a ton of stuff, then nothing for a month or two. If ALL I did was music, I think I'd be barely scraping by.

I agree with what BitJacker said though: Write off your stuff! Even if you aren't making tons of moneys, you'll be chipping away at what the government can take from you every year (which is a LOT when you have your own business, it's obscene).