If you can't make it on 100,000 a year something is wrong , happiness in life and doing what makes you happy is the most important decision he could be making at this point . You could be a surgeion and work crazy hours or you could be a dentist and make the same money and work less than 40 hrs .. I could live the life I want to presumably real cheap, if I just had the oppurtubity 1000,s of acres to hunt and manage and I'd die of old age broke and happy !