Well how successful is your stock trader friend? Why don't you ask him to mentor you until you learn at least 50% of his skill, and earn while you learn, then you could have both, live a travel life as well as make money from your laptop all by your self without needing another human being to pay you.

Believe you can and deserve to make progress in life consistently and repeatedly, and the universe silently delivers like mana from heaven....then scale that up, helps if you find a progress that pays you consistently that scales seamlessly at least till you surpass your 120K, kittens, and nice cloths easily.