I'm sorry work is tough. And I realize what an understatement that is.

Um, I went into graduate school to deal with my hard-work-as-entertainment thing, although my grad school experience is also a great deal of fucking around and not believing they pay me for it, you know?

Actually, have you considered computer security? You'd probably be frighteningly good at. There's a computer security hobbyist group in Austin that a fair number of professionals go to (which means, it can lead to jobs, if you're into that sort of thing).