This is more of a chicken and egg thing. I did end up spending a good chunk of my life towards acquiring that skillset _because_ I needed the money and the only

This is more of a chicken and egg thing. I did end up spending a good chunk of my life towards acquiring that skillset _because_ I needed the money and the only way to get that was to work thousands of man-hours shifting from one cubicle to another which in-turn made me good at that skill. That skill wasn't the objective, it was/is the means and I make sure I remember that. What if that skill is only useful/usable in a 9-5 environment in a soul-less corporate environment? Do you recommend I continue to sit in that environment just to use it, since I have been using it for last 15 years and it would be a waste to throw that experience away? Let me be the judge of that, its my life after all. I bet when we were not working, all of us enjoyed a bunch of things, right? Just because those things got sidelined in pursuit of this skill, which probably was acquired in pursuit of money, doesn't mean that when we finally have that money, we continue to sideline those things. We actually started working so that we had the luxury to enjoy those things, remember? I truely enjoy working with computers and I probably will continue to do that even when I'm done working. But that'll be at my terms and those days when I feel like spending the morning reading the newspaper and sipping tea instead, I can do exactly that. Thats the point. Edit: grammer