[foobarrio]

Have you ever been ill for long periods or had to care for parents, siblings or other loved ones being ill? Many people do. Of course they can choose not to care for anyone and leave but many times other people come into the picture when making decisions on where to spend your time. It's hard to make any plans in situations where you have no idea on the health of those you're taking care of.

[weeksie]

I'm not sure that having someone to care for would inhibit thinking of your life in five year chunks. Mobility? Definitely. But not everybody has the same situation, I'm surely lucky because I don't have those kinds of obligations but I didn't call it out because I am tired of the current fashion of ritual privilege self-flagellation. Cataloging all of my advantages and disadvantages feels oblique to the point.

[foobarrio]

It's the risk and uncertainty that changes everything. It's not just the mobility that changes. I have to take care of a sick family member and often times have to spend multiple days/nights in the ER/hospital. My current employer pays well, understand my situation and allows me to take days off pretty easily. Writing tax reporting software is probably the most boring thing I've ever had to do. However leaving that job and starting a company is a much much harder choice for me to make than a person with 0 responsibility to others. I will be competing with such persons too if I do decide to start company.