May 24, 2026
Bored, booked, and slightly insufferable
The Worlds Left to Conquer
He quit his job, got rich fast, and the comments are having a meltdown
TLDR: A consultant says quitting his job was shockingly easy and so profitable he’d already funded the next year, which set off a comment-section storm. Some readers saw proof that many companies are embarrassingly incompetent, while others said this sounds like elite-person advice dressed up as universal truth.
A blogger behind Ludicity just dropped the kind of post that makes office workers stare into the middle distance: he quit his job, started a consultancy, and says business has gone so absurdly well that he made enough by early 2026 to cover himself into 2027. At one point, he says he earned more than $1,000 an hour for a short stretch of work, and his biggest complaint now is not stress but boredom. Naturally, the community did not respond with calm and measured applause. They responded with a mix of envy, skepticism, and the digital equivalent of someone muttering, “must be nice.”
The sharpest reactions were less about the money and more about what it says about modern companies. One commenter basically screamed into the void that sales teams at multiple firms were so disorganized they couldn’t even answer messages or schedule meetings, which only fueled the author’s whole thesis that many businesses are weirdly bad at basic tasks. But others pushed back hard: one compared the post to getting dating advice from a very attractive person — technically possible to learn from, but maybe not relatable for the average mortal. That became the thread’s biggest drama: is this proof that the system is broken and mediocre managers are everywhere, or just a success story from someone unusually smart, confident, and good with people? Either way, commenters seemed united on one thing: the most savage joke in the room is that doing competent work now looks like a market-disrupting superpower.
Key Points
- •The author says it has been about a year and a half since leaving a job to start a consultancy.
- •The article argues that overconfidence can fuel incompetence, while also claiming many institutions perform basic tasks poorly.
- •The author says they previously understated business performance and that by February 2026 the consultancy had generated enough revenue to last until 2027.
- •The article states that on some engagements the author shared income with teammates and still earned more than their prior corporate salary.
- •The author says that during forty hours in 2025 they earned more than $1,000 per hour on measurable work and that both customers requested repeat engagements.