Not to mention the demand to make those skills, profitable enough to meet your needs. There’s only so much demand for skilled woodcarvers in any particular area.

Under many variables out of your control.

Yeah that's what I'm saying. There aren't that many jobs that you control the hours for and yet pay well enough to live within walking or biking distance to the beach (at least in America, I'm sure you could live in lower cost of living countries as a "digital nomad" and ruin the local economy).

But... if you can swing that type of thing, you don't need to be like rich, just well off enough to afford it.