It's gone back an forth, but centered around three things - music, military, and ministry.
I was heavily involved in music in high school, and put it aside for a few years to enlist in the military. During my final year of enlisted service, I took up jazz guitar lessons and jammed out with my teachers jazz quintet a number of times, got encouragement from him and his bass player to take up music as a career, and so went to college. I applied, and was accepted, to the Berkeley College of Music, but stupidly decided to attend a less well known conservatory program near my family. It was still an alright program, but I ended up studying classical guitar and early music, as they didn't have an electric program until several years after I began my studies there. I gigged around a lot solo, with a guitar trio, and chamber groups, and was a staff guitarist/composer at a local avant garde theater, as well as wrote and performed music for the city's Shakespearean theater.
A few years after graduation, gigging and teaching, I felt called to the ministry and entered seminary, setting aside music. Spent five years in theological, biblical and pastoral studies, and ministered at a church for a number of years before re-entering the military during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to serve in combat as a chaplain. I've spent about five years doing that, and am pretty tired of it. The Chaplaincy has some benefits, but not enough actual ministry gets accomplished, and it is a highly political job. I live near a large musical hub, and over the past few years have begun working my chops and musical knowledge back into shape, as well as taking advantage of my pay to outfit my rig. I'm currently looking at leaving the officer corps, and returning to music. I've already begun to gig on the side, and have been making some good networking connections. Time will tell.