If I was happy making 65k a year then I would stay a teacher. Being home every night, every holiday off, every weekend off, and working 9 months a year is going to be hard to give up. But if it's 65k the first year with 100k+ beyond that I can live with it, heck my CFI makes more than I do. I was simply responding to the person who called a guy an idiot for saying you actually can live off 50k a year.