Anyone who is successfully bilking the system so they can make large amounts of money doing a job they enjoy is not going to crow about it on social media. (Well, except for brokenmasonjars, who is currently downvoted to oblivion here.)

You get a very skewed perception of reality reading human-interest pieces, because nobody wants to read an article about someone who is doing better than them in every way, having more fun too, and is going to act like a douche and crow about it to the news media. And if you have half a brain, you don't want that article to be written about you.