Does 'IT' job takes our Freedom off?

Does IT industry takes our Freedom off? Really?

Well to begin with, it started this way:

While Browsing through my mails, happened to notice an interesting question answered on some Question-Answer website/blog called Quora...

This was the Question:

How good is a salary of INR 16 lakh p.a. for a 21 year old?

And the best voted answer was:

“It takes the freedom out of an employee. I am pretty sure, that an employer who pays you 16 lpa is smart enough to take away all your freedom” and the answer continues..

And this was the explanation for the statement:

“ Point is, 21-30 is the time to explore, to travel round the world and do things you are really curious about, fall in love, start a revolution, and learn how to play the guitar maybe?” 

Eventually, the guy left the job and he is working in science Institute, with 16kpm.

So how far is this true then?
After reading this answer, got a doubt in me what exactly Freedom means? Should it be redefined now just to understand the answer, or should we recollect what was taught in middle school?

This was what we learnt:

1. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.
2. The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

Don’t we have the right to act, speak or think as we want? I am sure we do have it.

of course we cannot express/act/speak irrelevant things at certain times; we act according to the situation.
Eg: you cannot arrange a rock show at someone’s funeral.

Are we imprisoned or enslaved? Definitely not physically.
Mentally? Maybe it depends on how we approach it. If we feel yes, certainly there must be a boundary for imprisonment right? What is it constructed with?

Most of us would say “work load”. Ok let’s keep this for discussion.

So can’t the above things (the travel, the love, the revolution, the guitar blah blah blah) be done with an IT job with 16lpa salary with work load?

If a job that offers 16lpa doesn’t allow us to do those stuffs, the job with 16kpm also shouldn’t allow, in fact I would argue that no job in the world would allow all those stuff if an IT job doesn’t allow.

Because a job is a job and personnel life is personnel life, Even though both run parallel they are still apart, like parallel railway tracks, one without the other of no use and remember the fact that both can never converge together as well.

In my 1 year of IT experiance, I have seen guys who burn themselves at their desks, yet they were able to achieve above stuffs.

The travel – people been to great places in just one year.
The love – yeah, seen couples who made love, got married, and settled happily now J
The revolution – yes, seen couple of guys who work immensely for public well being, and always ready to help in any cases, ready to gather statistics using RTI and the list continues, and their professional growth is Excellent.
The guitar – yes, I do have example for this. May be we can consider this as an hobby.

“Work load” was always there since I see them everyday.
Were they not able to break that “work load” boundary?
So how did they manage these stuffs with a high paid IT job in hand?

Yes, all that matters is “planning”
how well we organize the things,
how well we can manage both stuffs as separate entities taking them together.
I am not an expert at it though J am a mere beginner at this.

If we have passion for something I believe we can make some 'time' for that to achieve.

I may not be 100% right. But pretty confident that work and life are separate things and balancing them is up to us. Let’s not mix them up and make things complex to handle.

A guy earns 16 lpa at the age of 21? Congrats man you are worthy of something. that's great at this age :)

Now tell me does IT job takes our Freedom off? Not really :)

-Bhadra