This is not confined to tech. When I look at senior people in all the fields my friends and family work in, you have a small core group who - bless them - live

This is not confined to tech. When I look at senior people in all the fields my friends and family work in, you have a small core group who - bless them - live for the work and thrive on it, a good chunk of very successful people who like it enough and realize the fullness of life is not entirely in the job.