I have few friends who bit the "the office job is death" thing hook, line, and sinker. Only... it didn't work out for them. They are in shittier careers barely

I have few friends who bit the "the office job is death" thing hook, line, and sinker. Only... it didn't work out for them. They are in shittier careers barely making it work while I took the middle path and and quite comfortable. And my conclusion is: the 9-5 can be hard, but honestly I don't really mind it. At this point I'm good enough at the career and landed a role I'm a good fit for, it's really more of a 12-4 job for me. Not counting meetings. I'm not... hustling. I'm not being ground down. I'm just gliding. I have a good 401k. i make great money. I can work from home. I can take a break and read, and go for walks, and go running, and play guitar, and pet my cat, and cook lunch at home and get my dishes done. I don't really want to travel Asia. Maybe for a week or so. As someone who HAS traveled extensively: Meh! It is tiring! I like my house with my mad-scientist-lab looking office and all of my experiments and guitar pedals and things. Maybe it is perspective coming from a working class family. My father embalmed bodies and dug graves for a living. Very mediocre money, long hours, and not everyone's favorite job. What I do is easy compared to that.