The answer is relative to you. What do you think when you imagine your life purpose?
Career?
To me, it’s the difference between self ignited discipline and freedom, a life purpose, and wage slavery and dependence, a career.
A career will get me some security and certainly cash (nothing wrong with that) but leave me dependent and mechanical.
A life purpose, done effectively with patience, could hypothetically (because I’m not there yet) provide a comparable amount of cash and security while leaving room for creativity and perhaps more importantly, purpose.
The difference between just surviving and truly living.
Of course it’s easier to just keep the job I have now.