Career advice/financial freedom

Hi Jeremy,
I really appreciate who you are and what you are doing for other people by educating us about personal finance. Ever since I have followed your life journey, you have become an inspiration to me. I am a software engineer too, working at an awesome well paying tech company. I am 30 and I don’t hate my job but it makes me sad that I am working for someone else and all of my time is being used for someone else’s product. This fact kills me, even more, when I realize that I will have to keep working like this until my retirement. So I am starting to see less value in this job and willing to find a way out to work on my own and for my own product/service presuming it would be something related to software. I really don’t care that much of the money that I earn. Since I have followed you and read the book - The millionaire next door, I am practicing to live below my means a bit more consciously. So with this context, I wanted to seek some help from you and check if you have any pointers on how to get started with working independently, any books to read, start a software business, build a software product, etc. since I am guessing you have a broad experience in it?

If anyone from the audience also has any advice regarding this, I would highly appreciate that too.

Thanks in advance. Hope everyone is safe and doing well.

Hmm… well, I think at some point you just need to jump in the deep end and get started. I don’t think there’s a series of books you can read that will have you fully prepared on day one. Most of being an entrepreneur comes down to being able to figure shit out as you go. And that includes neverending education as you go along. That said, here’s a couple books that might be a good place to start:

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Gerber/dp/0887307280/

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/

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Thanks a lot Jeremy! I have heard about this book and it is in my to-read list.

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I got misled thinking that there was just one book recommendation - The Lean start up because of the link preview. I just realized there is another book - The e-myth revisited as well. I will give it a read too. Thanks again Jeremy.

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