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Re:How to work on cool stuff by tophat02 on Monday May 04, 2009 @11:51PM (#593583)
I really love hearing advice from people who just "took the risk" and quit their job. It's one thing to take a risk, but what I want to know is how they could actually DO it and still, you know, pay the mortgage and pay for food and such.

Is it just that they accumulate massive savings for just this purpose, or what?

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Re:How to work on cool stuff by jacoblyles on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @04:04AM (#593809)
As a single person, $5,000 is 3 months of leisure. That's hardly unatainable.
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Re:How to work on cool stuff by apgwoz on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @07:03AM (#593919)
he mentioned having a mortgage. Assuming a 300,000 house, 30 year mortgage at 5.7% or so, that's gotta be at least $2300. $5000, won't last more than 1.5 months in that situation.
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Re:How to work on cool stuff by jacoblyles on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @02:10PM (#594451)
My dad's mortgage payment is less than my rent payment. But I suppose if you assume living in an overpriced California suburb, then yes, it is hard to do.
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