My favorite course I took in college was a Russian Literature elective my first semester. I fell in love with Dostoevsky when we read Crime and Punishment and I ended up writing my 25 page term paper on him and his role in the proto-existentialist vs nihilism movement in Russia in the 1860s. There will always be a part of me that wishes I had taken my career in that direction instead of computers :)

Reminds me of an interview with Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue, where he mentioned that at one point, he had only been interested in literature, particularly Dostoevsky, and couldn't understand how anyone could bother with mathematics, but that he later realized that mathematics could also convey profound truths.

Please consider an advice: try using some of your spare time on that interest. You never know.

> There will always be a part of me that wishes I had taken my career in that direction instead of computers :)

Well, it's not like there's money in that direction, so the computer work can provide money for the Russian literature/philosophy interest.