It depends on what you have to trade for that extra money. If you have to give up 40 hours a week of doing what you like in exchange for 40 hours of performing

It depends on what you have to trade for that extra money. If you have to give up 40 hours a week of doing what you like in exchange for 40 hours of performing tedious work for an extra $1k a month then that's probably a deal most people wouldn't take.