The digital economy is weird. I used to regularly go to a site called "anandtech.com" which was originally started by a teen ager (Anand Lai Shimpi) in the late 90's. About ten years ago he announced he was retiring at age 32, one commenter said that means going to work for the bitten fruit, and just now, the digital publishing company that bought it announced it was shutting down. I had totally forgotten about it until I read it was gone with all the tech youtubers out there...
I suppose we've all said "screw it" and just walked away from a job, a girl, a hobby..