This is what I do. I make enough to live on and spend all the time I want goofing off on the Net (such as on this blog).

But I couldn't do this without my college degrees, so this would be several years away for the OP. Fortunately, in college I also made enough to live on (to be fair, my parents contributed at first) and spent all the time I wanted goofing off on the Net. (I also would be debt-free if I'd budgeted more carefully.)