I've been doing that for 2 years now. Now I'm starting up a company to commercialize the work I did on a presently intractable problem. If I studied the same

I've been doing that for 2 years now. Now I'm starting up a company to commercialize the work I did on a presently intractable problem. If I studied the same thing in med school, I wouldn't be able to get a job at the company I'm starting, but independent study has let me create a hypothesis about solving my unsolved problem. All my peers who graduated and bought houses and got corporate jobs when I dropped out of school are now looking at mortgages with negative values and shaky environments. I live like a starving artist so I have no assets to lose value. It's a great life, if you don't mind living like a starving artist. I'd love to hear your further thoughts when you have time. I agree that being isolated is the most dangerous part of being too independent.