There's a mountain of software work you can do that doesn't involve participating in this rat race. There's nothing that says you need to make 500k and live in

There's a mountain of software work you can do that doesn't involve participating in this rat race. There's nothing that says you need to make 500k and live in silicon valley. It's possible to be perfectly happy working integrating industrial control systems in a sleepy mountain town where cost of living is practically nothing. I am well qualified to make that statement.