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You can plan to do both at different stages of your life. For example, you can make a five year plan to live as your ordinary wage slave, you can learn to live cheaply, you can plan to achieve a certain amount of savings. After that, you can plan to live your life in a mobile home; you could work casual jobs and one-off jobs as a way to maintain your mobile home but you could easily get away with choosing not to work.
Whatever you choose to do, I recommend you take up a goal targeting protocol. https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/smart-goal/