Fort Minor

Edit: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park is the guy behind it.

At least only 24 of them are unconsentual. The 25th one has him/her a bit curious.

Laundromat with a pay per the pound washing service.

This seems like a failure to delegate. You should be focusing on overseeing the overseers while you research expanding the business into other areas of the field that you might enjoy more.

As a formerly remote network engineer, managers that don’t understand what you do are a huge hurdle to allowing remote work for some companies. How can they be sure you’re doing your job if they can’t see you!?

You could have them sign a noncompete if this is a concern.

I was in your boat not too long ago. Getting a job helped. It’s not great pay, but it’s good pay, and the schedule gives me time to work on a project. Live cheap and use as much of that income from the job to invest into a single project, I recommend one that isn’t an invention or new product. If you have a passion for something and the skills are already there to design and produce it, then by all means go for it, but it’s a gamble. There is only 1 musk and 1 bezos, but there are 1,000s of people that were trying to be them when they were becoming who they are.