Not me. But maybe this can inspire you. A person I worked with in Canada would go on leave for the winter and operate a snow plow. Then he’d return to a dev job

Not me. But maybe this can inspire you. A person I worked with in Canada would go on leave for the winter and operate a snow plow. Then he’d return to a dev job once the snow melted. Mind you this was a low stakes tiny company maintaining some Mickey Mouse CMS in a niche. It was for all purposes an SMB tech. So the salaries weren’t the SV windfall style but they were not too bad for the local market.