Despite this accelerated learning at Hive, after about four years there I began thinking about what was next. I still had my goal to exercise my other creative, philosophical, and impact-oriented passions, and the all-encompassing work of being at a start-up was not allowing me to pursue these alongside my professional work. It took me another two years to finally go part-time, partially because I needed that time to discover how I wanted to work towards those other goals, and partially because I needed to save up the money to exercise my equity with the company. The financial dream always was that if I could stop worrying about money one day (or at least worry less), I could focus 100% on the uniquely good work that I could do in all the different areas of my life.