Ask HN: What are your long-term career goals?

To be working in a flexible and stress free environment, pursuing interesting but not strenuous challenges while having enough time to enjoy the good things in life: friends, family, discovering the world, wasting time without pressuring obligations.

To be an established freelance web developer that I can live completely off the money I make doing it, comfortably.

Or, to be employed as a web developer working remotely and making enough money that I can live completely off the money I make doing it, comfortably.

Then start my own Pharmacy.

To not have to come back to work ever again.

You and me both.

Just don't leave and you can never return.

Too late, I already left.

Either enough money to never work again, or enough money for years off between work bursts.

I don’t mean any disrespect to regular work-retirement lifestyle (huge respect to people who do things instead of making sounds with their mouth (except for singers)), but to me it’s a huge risk. Employers and govt will screw you over without thinking twice, e.g. in case of illness or life changes that make you temporarily less able than they expected.

To not be homeless again