Good for you gfodor. I used to do a lot of jQuery, ASP.net, Rails/PHP front-end development and honestly even some of the backend stuff I did was basic CRUD. I

Good for you gfodor. I used to do a lot of jQuery, ASP.net, Rails/PHP front-end development and honestly even some of the backend stuff I did was basic CRUD. I've been trading options for the past three years and wrote an automated trading framework that uses message queues, reactor pattern that I've been QAing and plan to go live soon on my real brokerage account. I don't want to make money honestly at this point but using this project to learn about distributed programming, numerical methods and also functional languages. I saw on your profile that you used to work for Etsy and I've known a few peeps who also worked for them. So I understand where you're coming from when web dev is really nice and a golden handcuff but you don't want to stay stagnant and keep learning new things.