I can see the appeal of this. I've been writing software for 10 years now, but I find development quite solitary and the corporate world can be a bit of a drag

I can see the appeal of this. I've been writing software for 10 years now, but I find development quite solitary and the corporate world can be a bit of a drag to the extent that it takes the fun out of coding. I still love writing code and learning new technologies, but I can scratch that itch on my own time and find something I feel a bit more passionate about for the day job. For me it's going to be entrepreneurship next. If that fails I will look at retraining in a completely new area.