[mixmastamyk]

The age-old question. There's basically few ways you can do it if you are committed to keeping a job rather than starting a business.

1) Cut expenses significantly. (Conservative approach.) 2) Boost income, via new job search? (Riskier.) 3. Put the rest of the family to work somehow.

Either way, a lot of it has to do with luck or connections, they can't be discounted. If there were a formulaic way to do it other than grinding it out, folks would be doing it already.

[mcdoug]

I have seen a lot of these threads over the years on HN. Most give your two options, with an occasional "read pg, do a startup" type advice thrown in. Things I have considered:

- Switching careers to work closer to where the money is. For example, working for a douchey hedge fund that can pay half a mil a year if things are going well.

- Putting together a pitch deck, flying out to CA and pitching it to every VC who will listen. I have a decent idea for a dating app that solves a lot of the problems with the current crop of dating apps. A VC paying my salary for a year while I develop something like that would work well for me.

- Networking my way up until I am rubbing elbows with the ultra rich and looking for opportunities to help them spend their money.

- Playing the lotto until I'm broke.