Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals, you take one good shit and you go back to bed. What’s the fucking mystery?! - George

Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals, you take one good shit and you go back to bed. What’s the fucking mystery?! - George Carlin Seriously though, the freelancing thing isn't all that hard. Get really good with a particular framework or get good at customizing your favorite open source software or building a certain type of site. Find a few good clients who consistently have projects who are willing to pay you around a 100 an hour, work about 20 hours a week, keep your expenses low, live in Texas and you'll have all kinds of free time and money to support yourself. It takes a while to find good paying clients. Sure, freelancing may not be ideal, but ultimately you need some income to pay the bills while you are developing your passive income source. Unless there's more to the story, it sounds like you had a bad experience with one client, took on a project using a framework you weren't experienced with, didn't finish executing on a music site, and are now sad and talking about dying at the age of forty. From the age poll, it looks like you are 21. You have all kinds of time and it will probably take many years and lots more hard work to get where you want to be, and yes, it might even require working a 9-to-5 for a while. Keep chipping away.