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>>12595903
Almond milk plus whey is GOAT.

>>12583945
LCI.

>>10768838
Kinda doing this right now.

Just taking a few years "off".

>Be software developer
>Save a bunch of money from salary
>Made £22k from bitcoin (still kick myself for not going all in in the early days)
>Do some consulting work on the side, mostly ecommerce sites, idea guys mobile apps and some actual useful business software.
>Old boss let me take all the old IT equipment home so he didn't have to pay for it to be disposed of and wiped, made £6-7k selling it on ebay over the years.
>Break up with gf and rent a 2br house in a mostly rural area, living expenses £1300~ a month if I don't splash out on anything.
>Decide fuck it, work sucks, I'm quitting
>Still doing some consulting in fits and starts.
>Been off work for 14 months now.
>Have enough money for 4 1/2 more years of this if the consulting work keeps up, only spend like 6~ hours a week doing that.

The Good:

It's been awesome. Sleeping more, cooking properly, playing all the video games I've been wanting to, gained a suntan while shitposting from my garden, pub lunches, going to my crappy village gym and making gains. Seeing my friends a whole lot more, doing things every weekend now it's Summer. Tried to make an indie video game but quit because i fucking hate art and don't care to learn it.

The Bad:

Burning through my money, starting to get a little bored, thinking about travelling. Getting lonely, would be better if I got a new gf. Becoming pretty lazy. Thinking life is meaningless, I'm not progressing or improving except for my fitness goals, I'm not really doing anything with my life.


So I'm trying to decide whether I should crank up consulting which I don't enjoy... but still take it easy, build an actual B2B software company which is a whole lot of work, take the time to find a job I'd really like to do or just go travelling to distract myself from my meaningless life... that seems like the most fun option.


If you don't have to struggle to survive it fucks you up psychologically.