Nice one. 🙌

In answering your 2 questions - and with my bias front-and-centre - Solopreneurship - Business of One - Consultancies are a great pathway.

Very little overhead, full control, ability to say 'no thanks' or Fire clients. I choose who I work with now - very carefully. Only so much time on the planet, why squander it working for shitty clients and firms.

Plus, a commitment to building businesses around desired lifestyle (not the opposite) - and, thus, the more recent writing about Soul-preneurship.