> The trade off is that these jobs often come with immense stress and a lack of work life balance. Not at all. I have a close friend making close to $500K buil

> The trade off is that these jobs often come with immense stress and a lack of work life balance. Not at all. I have a close friend making close to $500K building internal dashboards at FANNG. He's on at 10 a.m. and off by 5 p.m. Every day. The only time he and his team are stressed are the final few days of a project, and that usually requires working "overtime," according to him, which is past 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.