Part-time is much more difficult to find and much less lucrative than full-time consulting part of the time. The big leap is you have to give up the perceived

Part-time is much more difficult to find and much less lucrative than full-time consulting part of the time. The big leap is you have to give up the perceived stability of your monthly paycheck. You are unemployed and unpaid by default. The easiest way to deal with this is to keep 6-12 months’ worth of living expenses in cash. You can tune your risk this way; less cash, more risk.