I kinda like that option choice.

There's a surgeon here in our pretty small community. He does surgeries 2 days a week, takes home $20,000 every week. He probably works some the other days as well, and he'll work some weekends at the hospital. But still, not too shabby. I wouldn't personally want to do that, but it sounds fabulous on the income side.

Me...? I fall much closer to option 1, but wish I'd finished college and headed in the direction of option 2. I still value free time more than income, though.

I stay under this delusion: while biking, I'll find $500K of abandoned drug money on the side of the road, surreptitiously stuff it into my jersey pockets, live off the (current) 6-8% interest, and piddle the rest of the time.