Funny how pulling in $150k/yr can actually be a downside. Reading between the lines, it sounds like you managed to adjust your lifestyle to match the income.

Funny how pulling in $150k/yr can actually be a downside. Reading between the lines, it sounds like you managed to adjust your lifestyle to match the income. Most people can live comfortably in the US for under $2k/month all in. So in theory you should be able to save something like 4 years worth of runway with a single year's contracting. In practice, you just convince yourself that it takes $10k/month to survive and as a result burn yourself into the ground 5x faster than everybody else.