Woooahhh. Aren't you relatively young? Won't you be building stain glass windows well into your 60s or 70s? Put that back into hobby mode IMMEDIATELY. Get back into consulting and save. Too many people try to turn hobby's into businesses only to burn out and lose the love it.
Consult. Stack sats. Build windows as passion. Revisit it as a business in 5 years time.
I ONLY say this because you mentioned earning only 20% against old earnings. That's not sustainable mentally or financially. Just my 2 cents and feel free to ignore me and stay the course if your heart calls for such! 💪
This!
Thanks for the perspective. I think where I’m having a hard time with your view is that there’s no certainty I’ll live to my 60s and 70s. I had a few deaths last year and I was confronted with that fact. Life is not certain
Fair enough. Only you know your age, how you feel, what doctors have said to you. If you have a clean bill of health and no known disease history in your family then you really should be guided by actuarial studies which on balance may put you in the 80-90 range. Perhaps you need to find a 50/50 split between your dream job and one that better supplements income so you don't feel like you are falling behind - if that's the feeling. All the best 👍🏻
Thank you, I appreciate your thoughts, very helpful perspective
