I have to say that that sounds awesome. I'll happily trade you my job (no serious academic thinking required) and work for 20% less of whatever they're paying you.
Here's the problem: I do it all the time and I'm good at it. So people have an expectation of me that I do the hard stuff well. Sometimes, that's not true or a problem is exceptionally hard and those times it's really stressful. It's doubly so when even the experts argue amongst themselves regarding solutions. It's been like that recently so as a result, sometimes I wish I was just doing some CRUD with Django :)
