Here's the difference: When the market says something, I can react to it and improve immediately. For me the market is large and variety, it's not like a few

Here's the difference: When the market says something, I can react to it and improve immediately. For me the market is large and variety, it's not like a few people make up %80 of the income. Working for a corporation, in the most recent case, meant dealing with people who were so incompetent that they did everything I can think of to interfere with us reacting to the market. You know the saying about how people with nothing to do create work for others? Well, when you're a software team and the boss has zero software skills, or understanding, or care, you end up in a lot of pointless meetings. Seriously, I would get interrupted 200 times in a day. (I counted once). So, more risk, less secure money, but avoiding harassment, verbal abuse, manipulation, gas lighting, and 200 interruptions a day is a huge positive trade off. For me at least. Plus I get to see my parents for a few months while I pick out the next place I'm going to live.