If you want to make enough income to have financial security in the US in most industries that means taking a salaried job, and ~15 days of personal time off no

If you want to make enough income to have financial security in the US in most industries that means taking a salaried job, and ~15 days of personal time off not including weekends and holidays. Its not that having to work 40 hours a week doesn't leave time enough to find your life's meaning, but its damn hard to do more than attend 2 major outside-of-norm events or go on any journeys that aren't majorly bookended by going back to work.