"Hustle" is the key word here. I'm currently working towards doing my hobby (gamedev) as the only thing I do. But the way I do it is collect corporate checks w

"Hustle" is the key word here. I'm currently working towards doing my hobby (gamedev) as the only thing I do. But the way I do it is collect corporate checks while allocating as much of my mind as possible towards improving my gamedev. So far it's not a bad deal - the hardest part is keeping sane in the face of the hellscape that is my corporate employers' other engineers. I have literally spent hours on Zoom calls listening to literal principal engineers discuss naming minutia. That at least gives me hope - turns out you don't need to be smart to be a principal. Easy money if I play my cards right. So while my goal is to do gamedev as my only income (pseudo-retiring in a sense) - it's fundamentally different.