> Are you playing wealth games or status games? Wealth is freedom, CTO role is still a job.

I would ideally like to not be accountable to anyone under, or over me. Just hack away at my hobby projects like Thanos did before he got his head cut.

> What is your end goal? Work backwards from that to how you spend your time (enterprise, startup, solo, etc). Maybe it's meaningful work. Maybe it's just a check, because you work to live, not live to work. May you find a path that enables the outcome desired.

Thanks for the advice! Perhaps I should spend a bit more time putting things into perspective. But I was just curious to get some answers on how much time people actually work. If I can get 50% of the money I'd get running a company, with 2hrs of work per week. I'd probably take that. I'm just not sure how common it is.