Serious Question

Okay guys. Here it is. The truth: I am. An Enterprise SHAREPOINT developer. I make close to $80,000 a year while most of my friends with university degrees ( of which I have none ) make less than half and work at web shops and small startups.

SharePoint and .NET are not my passion. My passions are Python, SICP, Ruby, Javascript, and UNIX. My boss threatened to fire me because I'm letting down my team since how can I create business value if I show up at 10am and wear jeans everyday? ( true, story ) I don't want to work in .NET, but the money is so good. SO GOOD.

My experience with freelancing (web dev and design) has been terrible. People refuse and dispute services rendered and jew me on rate, yet I incorporate their every whim into my designs and applications. ;;T_T

Is it possible to make GOOD money AND follow my passions? Or should I just learn to shut off my emotions and cope?

P.S. I am. Canadian. ; _ ;

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Seriously, if you just let the client change shit in the middle of a contract, you are only putting yourself at a liability. They'll tell you to change something that takes centuries to implement, then decide that they don't like it and refuse to pay for it because it wasn't in the contract. If you don't make them sign their fucking name on the dotted line saying that they are willing to pay for the changes, then don't even bother working.

This isn't just in programming either. Never, ever do that.