It's a trade-off isn't it, self-employment. When I left my corporate job and even when I stopped being employed in Thailand at a resort where I had shareholders and owners to report to constantly I was stressed out constantly... but the tradeoff was guaranteed salary. Once I was self employed I rarely stressed about the actual work, but now was stressed about being able to drum up enough custom to support my life. Thankfully for me it worked out and years later the work just comes in effortlessly. I'm probably counting those chickens before they hatch though because the industry could change really quickly.

I hope you are able to get ahead of the curve though because yes, not spending hours a day in a car is a definite perk of working for yourself. I don't know how people that have to do that day in and day out deal with the stress and I guess that is why we see so many road rage incidents in and around big cities.