TL;DR: to make this work - IMHO you must also be 'money oriented'. I would like to say that this is not always true ('invest in yourself' and expand your bank

TL;DR: to make this work - IMHO you must also be 'money oriented'. I would like to say that this is not always true ('invest in yourself' and expand your bank account in such way). Basically you must be 'money oriented'. Looking into my university, there is a whole spectrum of people, who are all invested in them selves more than 99.9% people in my country. But there are professors who have some successful businesses, and also lecturers who are not 'money oriented' and just like academia, and there are some not so lucky people, who maybe had some bad twists in their life, suffered depression, etc., and just live a basic life. It is probably to find something similar with people who are not so 'invested in themselves'. There some well established folks and not so well..