I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time

Being an Engineer, and thus knowing how to divide, I quickly worked out that a job paying "Twice as much in a year" will also pay you "Exactly as much in six months". I'd end up emailing my contacts back home somewhere around the 6-9 month mark, and would eventually hop a flight back to LA to work another gig. It got my internal mathematician working again to determine that hey, I can afford to live here on this beach indefinitely if I can somehow arrange just one day of work per month. The problem was, every time I stopped working for Other People, they stopped sending me money. I started working on building a Software Product in my spare time. The cool thing with Software as a Service products is that people keep sending you money every month whether you're working or not. Having Customers can sometimes seem an awful lot like working for Other People.