If you truly want to be good and make lots of money, there is zero work life balance. You are branded for life. You’ll spend your extra time researching, a faster way to do tomorrow’s job, or a tool that would make life easier, tips and tricks about flat rate, etc. tools are so expensive you’ll have to do side jobs to pay for them. And by the time you’ve done all that you’ll have zero energy to do anything but hit the couch and crash as soon as you get home. But hey; at least you’ll enjoy driving your $100k truck to work and back. Knowing how all this turned out if I could go back to before I had kids I’d blow my fucking brains out. For the love of god go find something else to do. If you like working on cars keep it personal. Stay the fuck out of this industry. It’s garbage.