I'd love to hear more, have you blogged about it? :)
I used to hate getting up in the morning and was consumed with stress about trivial work bullshit. These days I work in the South Pacific and split my time between environmental projects and training new divers.
It's not going to make me rich, at all, but I honestly don't care. I would trade the decade I wasted in front of computer screens to have started doing this a few years earlier.