So here&#x27;s the Math for me.  I recently dropped my nice fat full-time contract so that I could either &quot;go full time on my business&quot; or &quot;retire&quot;, depending on how you want to interpret it.<p>Before: One of those Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Twitter &quot;Total Comp&quot; numbers that nobody here believes whenever Bay Area salaries are discussed.  Upwards of 40 hour weeks, though I did drop down to 4 day weeks for the last year because, hey, I can live on only 80% of a fairy tale number that nobody would believe if you told them.<p>After: Normal Bay Area Developer money, of the sort that the other half of that discussion above make.  Or maybe a bit less.  But the &quot;Hours&quot; side of the equation is where it all gets made back up.<p>I just spent 3 months traveling through Southeast Asia with the kids, Rock Climbing, Surfing, Getting Married, Riding Elephants and Building Sand Castles.  The biggest work week I had involved maybe 10 hours in front of the computer.<p>Realistically, I could coast along like this indefinitely (thus the &quot;retired&quot; interpretation of my current situation above), but more likely I&#x27;ll go back to 5-20 hour weeks building out features in the existing products and shipping the next one.<p>That&#x27;s what you&#x27;re buying with all this &quot;Entrepreneuring&quot;.  The ability to replace your old income with a new one that doesn&#x27;t necessarily require you to work full time for it.<p>If you like doing things other than sitting a cubicle discussing where to go to lunch, I&#x27;d highly recommend looking in to it.