I take short-term jobs and contract work for a few months, then quit everything for full-time research. Usually the jobs I take happen to require learning somet

I take short-term jobs and contract work for a few months, then quit everything for full-time research. Usually the jobs I take happen to require learning something tangential but possibly useful. It's a happy coincidence that I am perfectly happy with the absurd level of frugality required. (I live in a place that most people call the "House of Squalor. It's really not dirty, but it is semi-dilapidated.)