The reason I have a vastly paid for runtime is because I doubt I could gain the skill to build to the quality I can buy and if I could I doubt I have the years left.  I enjoy building scenes and rendering, playing with lights and textures and I my time of life I want fun not boring.

 It has been the same with my cars for years, I can service them but I no longer like getting cold and dirty doing so.  I would rather have someone pay me to build a computer, a job I enjoy and can do in the warm.  What I make can then be spent on someone else getting cold and dirty servicing my car just a question of horses for courses. 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.