>Both of these tracks have huge holes and I suspect people choosing them may end up as depressed as regular "lifers" at big companies. Anecdotally i have enoug

>Both of these tracks have huge holes and I suspect people choosing them may end up as depressed as regular "lifers" at big companies. Anecdotally i have enough money that i dont really _have_ to work. i "retired" and bought a farm. got a job learning to frame houses (to learn to build my own house), and a year later i own a business framing houses. I run the farm, and build houses, and do whatever i feel like doing. i cant imagine getting depressed. there are always new challenges, and things to learn. I was horribly depressed and unfulfilled in corporate america writing software. now i do what i want, there isnt an HR department, and the business politics are fairly down to earth.