Strategies for dealing with money seem to me to come in two varieties: Have as much income as possible and don’t worry much about the outgo, or have as little outgo as possible and don’t worry much about the income. It seems to me like you’d prefer the latter, and I don’t see anything wrong with that.
It is a less popular kind of choice, and one that many people don’t really understand, so you might always have to deal with people objecting to it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, it just means that they don’t understand it, or possibly that they’re jealous. ;)
Googling ‘frugality’ should get you some good advice about making that kind of lifestyle work.
I also suggest testing your assumption in #8 that you can easily make money whenever you need it by doing so in order to set some money aside in case of an emergency as in issue #7. This is actually more about #8 than #7, though—basing your lifestyle on an untested assumption like that isn’t wise, and if (as I expect, actually) the assumption turns out to be accurate, having the experience of finding a job (or whatever) when you don’t have an emergency will be useful if you have to find one (or whatever) when you do.
Strategies for dealing with money seem to me to come in two varieties: Have as much income as possible and don’t worry much about the outgo, or have as little outgo as possible and don’t worry much about the income. It seems to me like you’d prefer the latter, and I don’t see anything wrong with that.
It is a less popular kind of choice, and one that many people don’t really understand, so you might always have to deal with people objecting to it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, it just means that they don’t understand it, or possibly that they’re jealous. ;)
Googling ‘frugality’ should get you some good advice about making that kind of lifestyle work.
I also suggest testing your assumption in #8 that you can easily make money whenever you need it by doing so in order to set some money aside in case of an emergency as in issue #7. This is actually more about #8 than #7, though—basing your lifestyle on an untested assumption like that isn’t wise, and if (as I expect, actually) the assumption turns out to be accurate, having the experience of finding a job (or whatever) when you don’t have an emergency will be useful if you have to find one (or whatever) when you do.