Interesting to watch how quickly people are dismissing this as something you need to be ultra-rich to pull off. You don't. If you're reading this, chances are

Interesting to watch how quickly people are dismissing this as something you need to be ultra-rich to pull off. You don't. If you're reading this, chances are you can do it. That's right. You can do this. I think my bill rate is pretty realistic for a developer, and I can more than sustain my family working four 8-hour days (so I do). You only need to make 25% more than the average joe to pull that off. And seriously, if you're a developer and you're not making >100% more than the average joe, you really need to go have a talk with your employer about the current state of the market. So yeah, all of us make enough to do this. No need to scrimp. No need to be the CEO. The math just plain works out. Incidentally, the author is right. Even taking one extra day off per week has had a huge effect on my quality of life and overall health. I get outside a lot more, play with the kids a lot more, don't seem to get sick at all anymore, and come in to each week completely fresh and actually missing work a bit. It's cool. I still kick around the idea of dropping down from my current 4 day weeks to 3 or even 2 day weeks.