You could go into consulting, and only spend 1/3 of the money you earn and put the rest into reserve for between gigs, and then work parttime by doing 55hr/week some of the time and 0hr/week most of the time.

Logically conceviable, but would require trememdous dicipline financially and some luck in finding gigs.

or

You could develop your own software as part of an independent entity, and then set a schedule and stick to it.

I've seen a few donationware projects outthere that seem to run that way, but you would have to have the tremendous luck of being able to make something useful with parttime work.

Logically conceviable, heck people do this, but the odds of looking for it and getting it? More people win the lottery.

or

If you live in a city, really all you need to do is find a job 5 minutes from your home and take a couple hours out of your day that way. It will feel like parttime compared to what you are doing now, and still probably have benifits.

OR

Find a job you love, and you won't mind working fulltime. Even if you think you don't have a social consciousness, try working for a company that does (like a B-corp or a charity). You won't feel like you are wasting your limited and precious time on earth so much if you spend your days making this place better.

Although I'm an advocate of buying good hardware, and not getting silly on the hardware to developer ratio. You must also note that more complex hardware requires more skilled/talented operators and more numerous hardware requires more skilled/talented operators and either one runs up the electric bill. Most of the cost of a server is operator costs, NOT purchace. So be careful on how you run the numbers. With that said, custom software development should be a choice of last resort. I am one of those guys, and if I'm bringing less than a factor of 10 improvement in speed in a redevelop project, it probably would have been cheaper to just buy more hardware.

#1 Not withstanding our right to privacy
#2 Not withstanding our right to the rule-of-law

Some of the most agregious cases in this genre involve totally innocent and helpless americans attacked by ogre companies.

Simply refusing to do untoward acts is NOT enough to protect you from this systematic defilement of justice.

And that's a REALLY BIG AND BAD problem.

just my 2 cents worth, :)

I presumed that 'genetics' was meant to cover this area.