This is exactly how I'm feeling at the moment. I was an entrepreneur all of my twenties, started a few companies, one of them is mildly successful. I left that

This is exactly how I'm feeling at the moment. I was an entrepreneur all of my twenties, started a few companies, one of them is mildly successful. I left that company last summer, and now I'm freelancing and probably starting a new job at a small but "normal" company as a software engineer soon. When I was an entrepreneur, I was always afraid that going "back" to just being an employee would make me unhappy, make me lose "status" and respect from friends and family. The truth is, that it's all bullshit. I don't care about status anymore. I learned that the most important thing for me is freedom (financial and geographic) and spending time with people I love. That doesn't mean I don't want to work on interesting projects and maybe some time in the future have a small impact somehwere. It just means that it's not the most important thing for me anymore.