You have freely chosen to be where you are. 

My chosen market differentiator.  

If I'm working 50 hours per week I don't get to play with my kids, see my wife, or contribute to others like I could if I didn't have to work those hours.Something no one has touched on, though, is that if you're relying on your $40k or $100k or $X in passive income for your chosen lifestyle you should probably work to get at least 1.5 or 2.0 times that much. 

I guess you could say all of them could be the best investment depending on many variables, market conditions and effort, starting capital, paths chosen within each investment vehicle, but if i had a gun to my head and had to choose, i would say that real GUTS and perseverance and belief in ones self would trump a college education any day.  

I own an insurance agency in the town that I’ve chosen to invest in and live about 45 minutes north.

My hobbies are golf, disc golf, travel, crypto, & reading.4.

Who I knew there has done *nothing* for launching me** on my chosen career path.

There’s a lot of hostility in this thread and from my POV, it’s because there’s a lot of judgment going on over what people have chosen to afford or cut back on.

But, things have a way of changing over the years ... and now I've chosen to give up that job.My point is only that leaving one's job doesn't necessarily happen because you don't like it anymore ... it can also happen because you grow to like something else more.

Crypto currency in my mind is another way to transfer value.