I have to say 3D modeling is my first passion ... or maybe the second. I started some years ago with 3D Studio R.4 and, after a "Maya period" (and a couple of years without mouse in hand), I'm on Max.
My "true" job is research in telecommunication engineering with specialization in deep-space transmission systems. I'm currently working in a Public Research Institute (Italy) founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1933.