Hello Everything

Welcome... you will find that its difficult to be truly great as well as respected in electronic music. If you can be both it would be great, but then you're probably Brian Eno and have better things to do than post to EB.

Also, talking to objects in your studio can be helpful. Sometimes yelling at your rackmount 80s DCO synths that lack adequate knobs for tweaking can really help you blow off a lot of rage and finally get that patch just right on your MKS or Matrix without having to wire up a phatman... "why won't you work you antiquated piece of junk??? FUCKER! oh wait, there we go."

Having grown up with old tube amps, reel to reel budget multitrack tape recorders, cassette 4 tracks and the Yamaha dx7 I know all about swearing at recalcitrant pieces of gear. Certain gear fosters a very love-hate relationship that you wouldn't usually have with inanimate objects.... programming a DX7 without software to help will certainly make you suspect the thing is full of angry gremlins and not electronic components!

Nah, you should not keep going beyond a hobby level. Stop making dance music and stay in school! Become a lawyer or something. Then buy all the gear you want and enjoy it between cases.