Bzzt, I think you need a reality check on LIFE. You are going to be miserable to the last day of your life if you somehow feel that you will find that Nirvana of 4 days off from work a week and good money to go with that. I'm sure you know that most "rich" people like Bill Gates, for example (but any wealthy person will do - short of a child born with a spoon in their mouth, like Paris Hilton) work hard, with few days off in their lives. They are often the first in the office, and the last to leave. They often have NO life outside their responsibilities.

On the other hand, those with MAX days off, as you put it, typically are part time workers at some dead end McDonald's type of job. Yes, they can get the time off if they want it, but they typically have no money to enjoy their days off, and live with their parents or in some crap apartment in a not-so-nice part of town.

You, for whatever reason, have unrealistic expectations of how your life should turn out. If you don't come to your senses and realize that you are dreaming with regard to your expectations, you will die a miserable life.

By the way, your comment about internet personas is bull****. Almost everyone I know is active online, and they range from their teens to their seventies. The personas they project online are essentially identical to who they are in "real life". Your back-tracking comment about somehow NOT being the person you portray yourself to be online I see as total bull****. The person we see online is EXACTLY you. You are self absorbed and whiny. You must be GREAT fun to be around on a daily basis.

Either get out of this business and find something else to do, or shut the **** up with your whining and look forward to a life ahead that most people on this planet can only dream of. You are in a good position at a very young age to have a good, rewarding career by the time you retire. If you can't see that, then you have some seriously messed up expectations in life, and you will end up being just a miserable old man who never quite lived up to his unrealistic goals in life.

Snap out of it, man!