"Everybody I know who earns anywhere close to enough to take 6 month of the year off work themselves half to death." This isn't true for everyone, it just depe

"Everybody I know who earns anywhere close to enough to take 6 month of the year off work themselves half to death." This isn't true for everyone, it just depends on your lifestyle. In Silicon Valley you can earn 100k a year being a programmer that asks for standard 9-5 hours (or 10-6), so the real question is whether you can live on ~50k a year.