Personally, I really don't like working full time in an office and this is required for most super high paid careers. I'm not very good at spending all that time sitting still and indoors staring at a computer screen. Due to this, I've chosen to go for an ecology/animal related career which will be less well paid, but I will enjoy it more. I've made peace with the fact I'll probably never earn a really impressive salary in this sort of field, but I will earn enough to be financially secure.
Imo, the reason certain jobs are well remunerated financially is at least partly because of the high stress levels and huge amount of work hours you're expected to put in.
If money is what motivates you, and you're happy to sacrifice other things for that, then that's cool. Other people are motivated by other things, and most people have a far higher level of tolerance for sitting at a desk than me.