The only thing I desired to do full time outside of programming was real estate investing and teaching fitness classes personal training.

I was a part time fitness instructor from 1999-2012 and was a (very bad) real estate investor from 2002-2008. I wouldn’t say fitness instructor is just for the young, my wife is now 50 and she has been teaching for 5 years. But it’s definitely not something you can do full time, the money isn’t there and trying to do it too much and is a wear and tear on your body. Even owning your studio isn’t that great as far as income.

But now at 51 and I have been working remotely between three companies since 2020, there is nothing I would rather do than wake up, wash up, and walk to my office in the other bedroom.

We have also done the digital nomad thing for a year and this year we will be away from home for a total of 3-4 months. There is nothing else that I would rather be doing.