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It's definitely a hard profession to walk away from when you have the skills, because it's much more lucrative than most alternatives. Find a gig which is not

It's definitely a hard profession to walk away from when you have the skills, because it's much more lucrative than most alternatives. Find a gig which is not too stressful (generally 40 hours/week). Likely candidates are in less sexy industries that won't make the HN front page. Save all you can, and enjoy your life outside of work. If you like programming and technology, even more "boring" jobs will often enough provide challenge to keep things interesting. If not, you can dabble outside of work without burning out if you're only putting in 40/week. EDIT: typo

mockingbirdy 8y ago
I've always decided against a normal 9-to-5 job because it feels like a waste of time and like I'm missing a purpose. I think I'll continue to work like you've described for half a year and save up my whole income and invest it properly. I already have a passive income of 1.5-1.9k€/month pre-tax, I'll invest the 20-30k€ that I'll save up in the next months to get to 3.5-5k€/month of passive income. It's not 10k/month, but I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice if I "enjoy my life outside work". Do you have the fear of regretting a 9-to-5 life? I've always wanted to be free so a 40h-week doing something I don't really enjoy sounds like a nightmare to me.
- xirdstl 8y ago
  Sounds like a good plan. Good luck to you!
  - mockingbirdy 8y ago
    I hope that it works out before the sh*t hits the fan. I guess 2019 will be the year of the next crash (Italy, college crisis, fiscal crisis, DAX is falling, Brexit, Trump policies that basically just deregulate and only bring short-term gains but ultimately harm the society long-term, real estate bubble here in Germany). Unfortunately, most of my passive income is coupled with consumer spending. I guess it will stop working when I need it most and investing another 20-30k€ won't bring me far (I'll try to invest when the market is low, nevertheless). Hope I'm wrong with my shallow market analysis. Hope it works out for all of you, too! edit: I hate crash predictions as the next guy because they're almost always wrong. But lately I'm having a hard time ignoring the signs.

mockingbirdy 8y ago

I've always decided against a normal 9-to-5 job because it feels like a waste of time and like I'm missing a purpose. I think I'll continue to work like you've described for half a year and save up my whole income and invest it properly. I already have a passive income of 1.5-1.9k€/month pre-tax, I'll invest the 20-30k€ that I'll save up in the next months to get to 3.5-5k€/month of passive income. It's not 10k/month, but I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice if I "enjoy my life outside work". Do you have the fear of regretting a 9-to-5 life? I've always wanted to be free so a 40h-week doing something I don't really enjoy sounds like a nightmare to me.

xirdstl 8y ago
Sounds like a good plan. Good luck to you!
- mockingbirdy 8y ago
  I hope that it works out before the sh*t hits the fan. I guess 2019 will be the year of the next crash (Italy, college crisis, fiscal crisis, DAX is falling, Brexit, Trump policies that basically just deregulate and only bring short-term gains but ultimately harm the society long-term, real estate bubble here in Germany). Unfortunately, most of my passive income is coupled with consumer spending. I guess it will stop working when I need it most and investing another 20-30k€ won't bring me far (I'll try to invest when the market is low, nevertheless). Hope I'm wrong with my shallow market analysis. Hope it works out for all of you, too! edit: I hate crash predictions as the next guy because they're almost always wrong. But lately I'm having a hard time ignoring the signs.