I wasn't asking for advice. And you are ignoring large parts of my point, such as the fact that there are fewer full time jobs and more gig work. Some people simply will have no real choice here, your insistence to the contrary not withstanding.
But that wasn't the case for the author. He was happy to have gotten fired. He thanked his manager for letting him go. Having another job, ever, was completely off the table, not an option.
This is not a rational mindset. Yours might be, you don't seem to want to share your thought process and I'm sure you have your reasons for that.
But his clearly isn't.
The lack of that observation may mean he isn't the most stellar author ever. Or it may mean he is not some font of wisdom and his explanations are sort of half-baked. But none of that is evidence that his choices were irrational.
It doesn't have to be the same choice you would make for it to be rational.
And I don't owe you justification for my life choices. It is obnoxious to imply that I do.
I haven't dismissed nor attacked your life choices. I have merely pointed out the obvious-on-the-face-of-it fact that your life is different from his and this creates different decision trees and different outcomes. That's it.
I didn't realize how much the condition was affecting me until several years after I started on my own. Now I know that it caused me to make more emotional decisions, to have a short fuse, and to tire easily. It still does.
As I reflect on it, I try not to make that too much of a factor. It's one of those mysterious impossible-to-indentify conditions. I still marvel that a person can go to an office every day, work around all of those people, and not need to take a nap in the middle of the day. In the rare days that I really feel good, suddenly "normal" people make sense. But that quickly slips away.
I don't want to make that a part of my rationalization of my decisions, though it likely played a large part. Anyway, I think I explained the rationale behind my irrationality in my post so I'll let that do the rest.
Says who? Are you some arbiter of rationality?
What logical argument supports that going freelance and not wanting to be a salaried employer is not a "rational mindset"?
It's a perfectly rational choice.