I think it's difficult to quantify "best", but I left an SWE job to run my own business in a low-tech, "dirty" job[1] where software, automation and mathematical decision making is typically not applied.

Currently out-earning a typical senior engineer, working maybe 30 hours a week and regularly taking time away from work to spend with my wife and young daughter.

[1]Specifically, used video games. But there are heaps of markets out there where technology and process is greatly under-utilised. Almost all of them are not high-status; that's why smart and educated people avoid them.