Realization #2: I am self-employed but I am still trading my time for money.

You can give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. You can give a man a fishing rod and he’ll eat until he can no longer physically fish. Or you can show the man how to build a fish trap so he doesn’t have to spend his entire life fishing alongside the stinkin’ river.

I need to get me some fish traps.