> Slow drip of a paycheck haha that's brutal

Yeah I wish I could quit my day job of working in a restaurant, drives me insane the yelling/ego bs I have to deal with. Granted I'm not "better than them" sucks can't escape reality. Got a "great gig" relatively where I am actually getting paid hourly as a contractor getting paid the same (less actually with regard to taxes) to my restaurant job.

I think it's funny as an intermediate developer I have no idea what business to make/run yet there are people that can do these "marketing/subscription" things "call to action button" and they just need some site and some theme/template to do it, some coding Joe like myself to change something and boom they're raking in some monthly recurring revenue haha.

Speaking through experience working on UpWork

edit: the rates matter and having a product matters, there are fixed amount of hours in a day and even working somewhere "that you like" if the rates aren't great it still doesn't make you a lot of money.