We all have been students and continue to be. We most likely share ongoing education in music and specifically folk music.
However in our lives we are students of many different things and disciplines. Some of these things may be in a professional capacity in which we are most invested and may create personal profit but may pale in contrast to another passionate ongoing interest of your own.
For a personal example;
14 years professional student of hypnotherapy, 25 years semi   professional student of the cello, 20 years student of fatherhood,
42 years student of cosmology, 50 years student of original art formats in painting and poetry. 8 years in various religious practices,, many years of being a student of Egyptology and archeological , geological interests.

Some of these studies were weaker than others but were fascinating at the time.


What are yours? I anticipate that folks like Rapaire (old avatar) could be interesting.