Thanks for the replies all.
That idea of half-job sounds good. I should be able to live off that. That would also potentially keep me motivated during the reading, because being alone without meeting people might get me demotivated with time.
To answer your question of where I'm going with this: I have about 20-30 books on my reading list that I just haven't got a good chance to sit down and read yet. These are books on computer-related stuff like PHP,SQL,Excel,C++,Linux,Postfix,Apache,Regex (this could easily be one whole year of reading) and also some material to higher mathematics related stuff (which could easily be one more year in addition). So I was thinking that with this knowledge under the belt I could more rapidly advance in a career either in the software industry or the banking industry (or both combined). Both I'm interested in.
To put it differently: I feel such a reading would be a prerequisite for all good that would follow.
But then as some of you say, I may be going the indirect way... maybe that's just because I have kind of a "fundamental" brain, meaning that I like to get the foundations right before I generalize and use in reality. But like you say, that might be indirect. A more direct approach could be just to start a company and learn along the way... but that's somehow just not me... (or at least not me as I currently know myself!)
Hope you now have a bit more idea about where I'm going with this. If not feel free to ask more.
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