I'm leaving IT after 5 years to start a real estate company and work with my hands. I feel exactly the same way as the OP. Sitting on my butt for 6 years is wrecking my health and I hate the work.
I've saved lots of money and as long as I don't screw up my investments, I'll never have to work for anyone else again.
I love open source software and will continue to build and contribute to projects. I hate enterprise software and development culture and will never do it again. To each his own.
Same here, I was lucky to work on a successful project and now have enough money to be independent. I am also going to support free and open software (I actually released some of my code and helped with small pull requests and I am donating a bit already). I mostly use free software now.
Corporations often restrict us and try to gain control and advantage over us. Just look at closed bios/intel ME. Why the hell is such an elementary piece of computer closed?
I purhased an expensive coffee machine. It works fine, except I would like to do a few minor software tweaks (add a note for each coffee config button to differentiate between them). If it were open, it would be very easy. Now I will have to reverse-engineer it and hope it uses some kind of filesystem and that extending it won't be too much work...
I've saved lots of money and as long as I don't screw up my investments, I'll never have to work for anyone else again.
I love open source software and will continue to build and contribute to projects. I hate enterprise software and development culture and will never do it again. To each his own.