Sure but, anecdotally, the only people I know who have "beat the market" are either healthcare professionals or small business owners. The successful entreprene

Sure but, anecdotally, the only people I know who have "beat the market" are either healthcare professionals or small business owners. The successful entrepreneur has a much, much higher ceiling than almost every other occupation. Sure, a cushy software job will be reliable and probably be very lucrative but those do have an eventual cap that doesn't exist when self-employed.