[csomar]

> And yet the child inside of me still wants to pursue the scrappy Silicon Valley tech dream.

So go do that? You fail to mention whether you live in a developed country (the US), you have a family, kids, or you want to have a family in the short-term, or you have parents to take care of. Because that matters more than the rest.

If you don't have any obligations, I'd just buy myself a ticket to S.E.A or Latin America and forget all about it. That's just what I did it.