Well, supporting your family will never be looked at as a bad thing, infact, it's the responsible thing to do (just look at maury and DNA test specials....everyone expects dad to stick around) The truth though, is how you decide to support your family is up to you. Everyone wants to provide the best life for their loved ones, if financial security was the LONE goal of success for yourself and your family, odds are you'd never see them, as you'd be working constantly. Not everyone will make a million dollars on an invention, not everyone will be a CEO and recieve lifetime insurance and a $6 mil, bonus upon retirement, but i don't think the majority of people go around CHASING money.

Which essentially tells me, that we're all "settling" for some form of living. We settle to accept a certain lifestyle and quality of life depending on our own defined needs and desires. For someone to pre-define what another individual needs to make in order to be succesful is crazy, as the results are so subjective.

As far as finding the right job in the right location with the right quality of life and the right pay seems like something that would severly limit ANYONE in ANY field. Of my friends, many have had to move for a new work, then move again for a promotion, move again for that next city closing it's store/operation. Thtat's the typical uncertainty of life, and can't be predicted.