> I’m doing all i can to not get full-time employed. My biggest fear is mediocracy I have a couple of years of work experience and studied for 8 years. I studi

> I’m doing all i can to not get full-time employed. My biggest fear is mediocracy I have a couple of years of work experience and studied for 8 years. I studied so much because science is my religion (10 years worth of degrees). In any case, here is what I thought: I want to be rich now. Why? I want freedom. Alright. I'm not rich. Can I still get freedom? I did some calculations and noticed that in The Netherlands, I can get a salary of 5000 euro's right now (as the upperbound). So if I manage to work 3 days, then I get 3000 euro's (gross) which is more than enough. In The Netherlands, it's relatively doable to find jobs for 4 days, so finding a 3 day job should be doable. Then it dawned on me. Do I want to work less? No, I need to work a bit to keep my mind sharp. I need to have a few days in the week where I don't fully do what I want, but where I do an activity that is highly logical (i.e. programming). Currently I'm in a 4 day job situation, I'm enjoying my extra day off. I'm enjoying the remote flexibility. I'm enjoying the possibility to go to the office when I want to (the company is in a neighbouring country, so it's a small vacation really). I'm also enjoying the ability to start at 12 instead of 9. I failed my way up. I graduated cum laude with game-design and graduated almost cum laude with computer science. No big tech company gave me a graduate interview. I became depressed because no one gave me a chance. People on HN reached out though but I mishandled it. That depression caused 18 months of applying for jobs and that's when I started my ascent of failing upwards. I started at a startup that underpaid me for 6 months, I left there because I wasn't passionate about them and because I felt underpaid. Then I went to unemployment benefits for 3 months, and I got my second job soon after. The second job was more high profile and better paid. I was let go because they felt I was too slow (after 6 months again). Now I'm on my third job and my "experience" allow me to command a salary between 4000 to 5000 euro's. It's kind of ridiculous that 2 years ago I could only get half that salary. I feel that I didn't even gain that much experience with those two jobs. I gained much more experience studying and doing jobs during my study days (as a software engineer and coding instructor). So yea, that's my story. You can definitely see some things you might want to avoid ;-) All I'm saying is: if you want to live now, find a 3 day job and make sure you live the rest of the 4 days. Currently I'm hyper focused on learning mathematics next to my job. Learning mathematics gives me real depth. Doing my job is okay and keeps my engine warm and running.