I've hacked away on projects over nights and weekends, hoping that one of them would be my ticket to a self-led lifestyle, but with no success. Then I landed a

I've hacked away on projects over nights and weekends, hoping that one of them would be my ticket to a self-led lifestyle, but with no success. Then I landed a contracting client, and quit my job to commit fully to the client. I took the chance! Six months later, I was fairly burnt out on working alone with this client. In retrospect, I wish I had kept the client and tried to grow the business, even if reality wasn't as rosy as I had hoped. Since then I've tried to find more clients and not had much success, after taking a job and then quitting again. Looks like I may end up back in the corporate world soon enough. So- no regrets from this attempt to find freedom, even though it's leading me back to where I started. I will say it's become clear to me that our socioeconomic system is not set up to support people becoming more free... quite the opposite. Maybe if you try to make a SaaS business into something that requires VC-style scaling, it could backfire and cause regret, as you're committed to something that becomes more all-encompassing and lasts many years.