Troublesome change of scenery

[fomb]

Since 1996 I've been a software developer (almost entirely web development) and that industry has done me well. I'm now earning over six figures and currently work at a startup of six of us. This startup could go well, it could not (as they always can).

However, I can't really be arsed with it any more. Some people would love to be in my position, but ultimately I've been doing it almost 30 years now and I just don't find it as interesting as I used to - it's a complete grind.

Problem is, due to earning pretty damn well, and being able to work from home in my pants (as I have done since 2012) it's super hard to look at any other options. I'm not going to be able to walk into a six figure salary that I largely depend on.

I have thought about starting out in my own in some way, but I'm definitely no salesman being fairly introverted, but I also don't really want to continue with software development.

So, PH massive, what do you guys/girls think? I recognise I have it good, but I'm not sure I can do this for another 20 years.

[Truckosaurus]

I don't think there's a magic answer - other wise we'd all be jumping ship to whatever job that was fun yet lucrative.

The easiest option might just be to cut your cloth on your lifestyle that is burning through the 'six figures' so you can retire in 5-10 years rather than slog it out for another 20.

[Voldemort]

If you can work from home in your pants then maybe change homes... I'd be off to somewhere warm like a rat up a drainpipe

[dudleybloke]

Buy a boat with an Internet connection and off you go.

[Mirinjawbro]

same position for me almost.

does the extra 2k 3k a month take home really change your life over something you hate? nope. ok bigger house + mortgage . car + running costs.

to live this "tiktok" lifestyle of boats, supercars and yatchs you need millions. something 99.9999% wont have

change career for a while , you can always go back to it if you wish.

[Newc]

Cutting the cloth, as suggested above, is the right answer.

Hunter S Thompson said it far more eloquently than I could:

We do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. We strive to be ourselves.

I don’t mean that we can’t be firemen, bankers, or doctors— but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal.

Look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.