> This must be a troll.

Its funny cuz what he describes is basically my story as well. I lived to travel and took on substandard contracts to get by for awhile. eventually met my cofounders and now I'm living comfortably on a descent salary with a saas that I built. Hopefully I can keep this going indefinitly.

I guess my implied advice is to live the way you want even if it means making less money than you could?

Yeah. I’ll own that.

Believe it or not, you're on a website where a lot of the readers build stuff. And quite a few find success.