I plan on becoming financially independent within 3-5 years (FIRE movement). I love making things though, so then I might do one of these (or a combination):
- Continue working. I am very happy at my current company, and I know there are some other great companies where I wouldn't mind working.
- Make open source or projects. I've done many OSS projects and I can see myself doing more. However, the direction where web OSS is going is very dangerous, might not be worth it at all within 5 years https://github.com/franciscop/
- Make small but nice products, I have many things I like solving with software like https://core.cards/
- Create my own startup, who knows.