I can make big cash money doing something I already do even if I didn't get paid for it.
I feel like a modern age digital blacksmith: I can make the tools for many other professions.
It's like "The Pretender" or "Burn Notice" in that organizations in different sectors and industries come to us with a wide variety of tricky problems that we help them solve with machine learning.
Nobody tells me what i need to do as long as i am productive and i still get the comfort of being employed.
I like my colleagues; good colleagues make the difference between a job that you want to leave, and a job you can enjoy for years.
I get paid really really well to do work I already like doing, and I wear whatever I want while I do
it