In your area. Ask the people who provide the most basic and fundamental services around you how they get by. The cashier at the supermarket. The waiter at your

In your area. Ask the people who provide the most basic and fundamental services around you how they get by. The cashier at the supermarket. The waiter at your restaurant. The pizza delivery guy. I promise you, one, they are not anywhere close to making 200k. And I'm sure plenty of them have kids, family they need to provide for. I comprehend the issue in terms of degrees of freedom. How free, how autonomous are you compared to the cashier at the supermarket? Choose your dimensions. Choice of work, choice of shelter, choice of food. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Try your best to objectively evaluate your freedom in the dimensions that matter to you. Then compare to your chosen reference worker/s. Cashier, delivery guy, warehouse worker, office worker, etc. To claim that you are a wage slave is to claim that you have even less freedom than the rest of us. So analyze it carefully. And if you do reach the conclusion that the guy working the checkouts has more freedom than you, the logical conclusion is for you to quit your 4 hours a week, 200k job and become a checkout worker, no? Well, I'm sure you'll have no interviewing problems there.