> Ive also tried to work jobs at smaller companies where I'm significantly underpaid, in theory in exchange for a little more freedom and more ability to make a

> Ive also tried to work jobs at smaller companies where I'm significantly underpaid, in theory in exchange for a little more freedom and more ability to make a difference, bit eventually that gets a bit boring. Worst idea ever and I’m not comfortable expanding here. But the dynamics are just too problematic. Here is my suggestion to you: 1. Go ahead and open the coffeeshop but a really small one with a small office for yourself. You don’t mention where you live and if you are open to move to other places. To make sure you are running a small operation, you should have only one employee (excluding cleaning which you can outsource) 2. Work on an open source project. Find what most interest you and the stack that will make work a delight. Do you want to create a bitcoin node with Rust? Go ahead and do that! The morning you’ll go to the coffeeshop, you can brew your own coffee and maybe service customers if you feel like it. Or not. You can work from the small office when you need peace or hang at your own coffeeshop to maybe socialize with fellow customers.