Great points. It makes a lot of sense.
El apuro trae cansancio, goes the spanish saying (rush brings tiredness).
That's all we get at the end of our lives; actually that can accelerate the end of our lives.
No activity, no matter how well paid it is, is worth pursuing (especially if it implies stress) if the price we pay for its compensation is losing contact with what it means to be alive (self, friends, family, nature).