I have been in internet marketing for over a decade. I know some see it as 'sleazy' but it is whatever you make it. You can choose to promote scummy products like penis pills or ethical stuff your are into however the latter may be harder to make a buck from and requires more creativity.

I learned coding and made the jump to linux around 2016, making automation bots for the marketing.

I currently enjoy some passive income from my efforts over the years and have not worked for over a year. Once my basic monetary requirements were taken care of I found myself losing interest in working.

Even so, I know full well the income could disappear any time, which it has done in the past, having had many long troughs where making money again seemed impossible, so keep an eye on new projects I could undertake.

Since the coding and linux infrastructure has been my favorite part, using it as a vehicle for the marketing, I wonder if there were direct jobs I could do related to this stuff as marketing products that I was not personally interested in was not that motivating once the baseline money to live had been met.

Of course there are things like sysadmin and programming however both I feel would make me beholden to someone else whereas with marketing I can work as much or as little as I want.

Are there any fields which may still offer the freedom of marketing but more directly related to these things?

All I have thought of so far is perhaps producing a product to then sell/rent out. I have hated ebay for a long time due to how it favors buyers and treats sellers like crap so I had thought of making an online market which was fairer to sellers and using crypto maybe for payments. Of course would be a large undertaking but I have the luxury of time and looking for something to sink my teeth in to.

Even so would probably want to bring other coders into it and seems like it would be an interesting project working with other coders on a shared vision, having only coded solo so far; though I can envision that can also bring its own teething troubles but already being financially independent removes a lot of the outcome dependence.

So my main criteria summarized are:
-linux and python related
-no 'man' above me telling me what to do which rules out freelance coding
-no general pressure to work to deadlines other than the ones I set for myself

that is quite simple, it is your own company.

So let's sum up: you want a 'job' where:

• You have no deadlines
• You have zero pressure
• You don't have to deal with/talk to/see any other people
• You don't want to have a boss of any type

Yet you still expect to make money??? Do you not see any problems with the scenario you just described??? ANY job, anywhere, involves two things: something getting created that's of value and someone buying it. If I ask you to code something that I need in two months and you agree to the job, then I will fully EXPECT what I paid for when I asked for it. Even if you work for yourself, the 'man' above you is your CUSTOMER. They aren't going to want to hear whining about you not wanting a deadline, or the 'pressure' of things.

And this:
...is absolutely the peak of irony, after reading the first part of your post. You somehow want to work with other coders (who are people, right?) on a website that people use and would expect to WORK (that'd be PRESSURE, right??) 100% of the time, and if it didn't, you'd have to deal with those users (again...PEOPLE) who would want that site up ASAP (a....DEADLINE). Or do you somehow expect to just tell the users, "Hey, it's too much pressure and I don't want to work today...come back whenever"??

Think hard about what you're asking.

Personally I don't think you'll have to worry about employment. If you, as a software guy have let your skills go stale, you won't get a job anywhere! Things have moved on. The jobs are in AI at the moment. Who knows what folks will be doing next year.

If you're thinking about a job because what you've done is nearing EOL, Let the air out of your head and think it through again. Nobody likes stress, but nobody can work and avoid it. Because if you're not under stress, you're uncompetitive.

If there's time to go on your steady income, start up a software company or mobile app.
Write version 1 of an idea which will be wanted a year hence. Then raise capital and gather partners. Personally, I feel a career break for a software guy could be the end of your career unless you get into gear.

EDIT: From the employer's POV, there's a drastic lack of work ethic. There's guys working overtime, doing all nighters when required. But you don't want stress................

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If you are doing quality work for a client who has reason to trust you, then there is always "pres-sure." Especially if it is your own company, since you are the one who made those promises that your customer trusted you to keep. (And, 'exceed.')

For most of my career, I thrived on that. I also created a proprietary software product (more than thirty years ago, now) which I then sold all around the world – believe it or not, I just sold another copy last week. There is "pressure" associated with that, too. Because the product in question is designed to help solve a very difficult "show-stopper" problem. And I genuinely care(!) that my customers succeed in solving their problem, if it can be solved. I've spent hours on the phone. Willingly.

If you are simply looking for "money without pressure," then you are thinking about you. Whereas, in business, you must think about them. That's what they're agreeing to pay you money for, and you have to "not only 'deliver,' but 'exceed.'" If you can consistently do that, "your reputation will precede you." And you have every reason to be proud of "a job well-done." There's nothing like it. Nothing. I count myself very lucky – although, "there is no such thing as 'luck.'" It was, and still is(!), fulfilling.

“Coding” is making a computer do what people want it to to. There’s not much point in being a coder (software developer, systems analyst, architect, etc.) without people. Just sayin’

Write a program and then market it? Lots of people selling their games on Steam, itch.io and other places. Lots of people selling mobile apps in app stores.

Can decent games be written in just python? No longer C++ only playing field?

I do like the idea of an indie game. This means I can make at my own pace and be like a hobby project. Seems like there would not be stress to that unless it is a triple A like the cyberpink 2077 debacle. Of course it could get annoying looking at people whining on steam about (lack of) features and bugs! The critics are the worse for artistic stuff I guess.

Maybe not so keen on that any more.

From the comments it seems like I already have the perfect job for me so it gave me new appreciation of it .

These would all be made with Python:

https://itch.io/games/made-with-pygame