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I'm in a career where working hard is pretty mandatory and everything you do is minutely tracked so you can't really get away with slacking hours unless you're in a less demanding, lower paid job. I grinded at multiple high paying jobs jumping around trying to find the 'cushy' gig but wasn't able to and eventually burned out real hard from stress.
Anecdotally I know a lot of programmers, and they tend to have pretty damn sweet gigs. Folks like you making hundreds of thousands a year for like 30 hours a week. Sure being willing to optimize your career is part of that, but I think it's pretty rare to find that level of compensation for anything less than 50-60 hours of work in any other field. Maybe I'm wrong but that's the imperssion I get from the outside looking in.
Well that's the thing - it's a tradeoff. To put it another way, most people probably already live in a shittier house/city but don't have the option of either working less or making globs and globs of money.
To your question about would it be more fun, I guess it depends? For me I would love to be good enough / in demand enough to pick and choose companies I work for, and ideally join a team I really like while doing something I truly care about. Unfortunately that takes quite a bit of career capital, and in some cases actual capital if I would want to find a well paying job like that.
All this being said I have managed to find a good role for myself that I enjoy, but only by going all in on a startup and agreeing to take a pretty big risk working for a few months without any pay, only sweat equity.
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