A life should be about what you want to do, not how much money you can make. But if making as much money as you can at your job is necessary to finance your life goals, then that's fair enough. Work to live, don't live to work. I've friends who simply make as much money as they can 4-6 months of the year and devote the rest of their time to personal projects, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Such trade-offs are common but they're still trade-offs. You're still effectively dividing yourself into two halves, and only because you're lacking the trust that life will favor those who engage fully to its offerings.
I don't mean to preach here as only you can know what kind of life is good for you at the time. But I think there's a immensely deep question beyond; that's why realising what you want is so damn hard in practise!
The reason I'm insisting on this is that I'm slowly beginning to hit the hard wall myself. I don't fully trust life myself either, yet. Trust also means letting go of lots of things you've believed that are important but which you're only attached to. Still, I'm afraid I can't prolong the current state of affairs for too long.
