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. ; _ ;

>>1
1) You can do what >>6,7 said.
2) >>4 said. (I recommend this one), and then move to something else. Since we all know \prog/ is better as a hobby, than a job (Extra not dependency)
3)Go into embedded shit, where portable devices are being sold at the billions now. And move to the correct devel. tools: ANSI C, SICP, *nix.

Above all, it is your choice to make the world, or keep making parasitic gains of money. Heck what do I know, I make all the FCC decrypt tools, I am the most parasitic of them all.