But I can see the flip side. He works constantly, 60+ hours a week and more. And he's always worn out. And I'm not sure he actually likes the job. At some point, you gotta ask yourself if the money means all that much if you can't enjoy it. I can think of no greater hell than making $100k a year doing a job that I despise, and spending almost no time with my family or actually enjoying life. There has to be a balance.
The flip side of that flip side is that I worked probably 100+ hours a week for years on end (almost never a day completely off) between school and work. Got out of school and had crappy entry level jobs for the first several years, and didn't make any real money until an OT gig came and I was working those 60s to do it.
So... Pretty much from age 19-35 I was working at minimum 60 hours a week anyhow. All of that landed me a career where my job is being outsourced faster than I can think of ways to stay employed and I wouldn't really say that's what I want to do until retirement. In fact, that's probably not what I'm going to be doing from the looks of things.
Looking back on it all, if I had started in a trade at 19 and poured as much effort and money into as I did school, then career apprenticeship after that, and all it took to get there... I'd have a pretty sweet business of my own by now and could probably still be sitting in an office if I wanted to. It wasn't until about 5 years ago I figured out that all of the rich guys I know did it pretty much exactly that way. Very few people get rich from going to school and getting a job. Many don't even end up getting much more than getting by.