[rootsudo]

This is a great question - it depends, for me it is FIRE.

But the path to FIRE is hard, can you put away a decade of your life to "work" to retire? When should you start? Are you too late?

I also enjoy this line of work because it is more liberating, if in a right environment. It's fun to learn, it's amazing to be paid to learn and even better. I'm not aware of any other career progression which leads to as much freedom and independence that IT/Tech/Software has done for all of us.

[kojeovo]

Most people started working on FIRE seemingly during a bull run. Wonder how it's going now..