[jaxwerk]

I'm 31, retired a couple years back. Instead of going into FAANG I went the high-risk route and worked for small start-ups from ages 15-28. I've had a ~25% success rate on those companies and now have enough to maintain my middle-class lifestyle without further income.

I live nomadically in a campervan I built and guide raft trips and volunteer doing whitewater rescue now. However, I missed building things enough that I picked up another software job last year. I like building tiny-houses and campervans too, but as much as I hate staring at computer screens I'm just too addicted to the crazy leverage my efforts in software have to give that up it turns out! The jobs are way more fun too when you care not at all about getting fired.