MusakParent I really like your point about many making a “quiet” living in the arts.
The various skills and tasks you listed as part of that life are also a very good point. I do think undergrad years should be a time when you can “just” do music (intense as it is), though many conservatories now have classes on entrepreneurship and require outreach work. Ditto other arts like theater.
CS is way more than coding. A lot of intense math, for one thing. My son majored in it and tries to explain things and I do get it once in awhile, but mainly I get the complexity and depth of the curriculum for the major.