Could you elaborate more on what it is you do? I'm a current college student studying math. I enjoy what I study a lot, but don't think I could cut it as a mathematician. At the end of the day, I don't care much for money on its own, but I do accept that it is needed to enjoy the true freedom and enjoyment of life you describe. But, as such, I've had to look at jobs that seem kind of bleak to me, but do pay nicely like software engineering(I know that there are some very very interesting software engineering positions, but these are far and few and I'm personally not interested in AI). If I could skip this intermediate step, that would be awesome, so naturally I'm really curious what you do/how you started?