How I got wealthy without working too hard
As far as I can tell, the suggested way of working would be incredibly stressful for someone like me.<p>First, I have to learn stuff I hate just because the market currently demands it.<p>I can&#x27;t really bring myself to do that.<p>With everyone jumping on AWS and the latest JS frameworks, I stick to programming in Go and deploying static binaries to a single&#x2F;cheap VPS. I basically only have one library in my &#x27;npm&#x27; depdendencies (a virtual dom library).<p>Second, You have to keep advertising <i>yourself</i> online to keep getting more contracts. I don&#x27;t really know how to do that. I tried it in the past and didn&#x27;t really get anywhere. I don&#x27;t know how people get contracts with &gt; $500&#x2F;day rates. But still, even if I knew how to do it, it would probably still be stressful to some degree.<p>Third, You have to be content living in a small town. It&#x27;s great if that kind of life suits you, but it doesn&#x27;t really suit me. Now, being at the center of a big city is not for me either, but I like to be <i>close</i> to the center. I want to live in a place with lots of amenities and shopping nearby. Where a car is an optional luxary, not a necessity.<p>The point of money is to enjoy life. If you live in the middle of no where, what does it matter that you have a million dollars in the bank? Or even that you have a house?<p>I think for someone like me, going the independent product development route seems much saner&#x2F;healthier.<p>Anyway, here&#x27;s a side remark as well:<p>&gt; We are all going to die, and Earth will explode in the Sun in a few billion years: please, enjoy some now.<p>What&#x27;s up with people bothering with what will happen in a million years from now? And then concluding since it all goes away then only <i>right now</i> is important?<p>Like, why not, you know: now is important, but a 1000 years from now is important too.