I used to be a programmer, decided after burning out that I did not feel like chasing tech stacks for the next two decades and recycled my knowledge to set up a service for venture capital. I've been doing this for a decade now and it is slowly taking off. In a nutshell, me and my little band of friends help VCs to evaluate the companies they have the option to invest in. Our 'work product' is a report, which it takes about a week to put together.

There were many other options to choose from this one I had a bit of a taste from by accident and I decided to see where it would lead. In the meantime I'm firing off all kinds of crazy projects whenever I have some spare time (less so every year due to the service company doubling in size year over year for the last 5 years or so).

It makes good money too, and the customers I have are a lot more appreciative than any of the start-ups (b2c) customers that I had. Also there is enough time left over for a life rather than to be in the rat race all the time. All in all it suits me well, I should have probably done it earlier but apparently I had to run into the wall first before I got the message. I still code, but only when it suits me and I have fun doing it.