I have taken this road and use my abilities to create wealth through an internet connection to remove myself and my family from the wage slave system.  Government jobs are for the slaves.  The corporate jobs are for the slaves.  It's simply trading some semblance of financial security for most of your free time in life.  I will take the scary nature of being on your own along with the freedom.  You can have the wage slave job and taxes.  Hell your handing over most of your income to taxes and healthcare so are you really living at all anyways?