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Don't get me wrong, but in most of the situations, if you are not a Software Engineer, you would not be able to afford to both "leave that life" and "snowboard

• akaij 5y ago
  Ah, yes. The eternal dilemma of "time, money, energy, but you can only choose two at a time".
• grecy 5y ago
  That's a very common myth. I volunteer at the mountain as either ski patrol or a snowboard instructor. I do 13 days of work (almost always before the mountain even opens - setting up signs, fences, shovelling snow, etc.) and then get a free season pass and have no other responsibilities for the year. Even when buying a pass it's $900 for the year... which means I just pickup 2 weeks of some odd jobs to pay for it. I bought my snowboard gear around 7 years ago (used).. so at this point it has cost cents per day. I have no money from "when I was a software engineer", so it's not like I'm living on some big slush fund or something - I just make smart decisions now about how much money I spend, because that directly dictates how much I'll have to go to work.