WFH at a "if you get shit done, we don't care what your hours are" company. Or contracting with a high enough rate. I've done the former, now I'm doing the latter.

But this gravy train is not going to last much longer. Those companies are rare and with all the layoffs, the only way to get good contracting gigs is through industry contacts.

I still gotta work, but my minimum maintenance budget is about 40 hours a month. 100 means I can invest some, or splurge on niceties.

So I could sleep in if my toddler didn't have kindergarten (comes home at noon since we're still just practicing and not doing the afternoon nap there yet) and I absolutely could go to the gym in the middle of the day too (provided the aforementioned toddler is in kindy or I have a sitter. I'm a single dad).

This isn't really something everyone can do and I'm not sure how much longer it'll last for me so I'm going to start working more again when we're doing full ~8 hour days in kindergarten, but for now I'm kinda enjoying most of what the trust fund kiddie gets, without being a trust fund baby myself.

No surf though. Hour away from the beach. And I don't know how to surf.