In a different life, I would have probably do the management consulting job, made my FU money, write my FU email, retire for two years blowing it all in Rio in debauchery, then coming back and doing another round like everyone seems to do. I sometimes view the "money" things that we're doing as somewhat futile, as without a change in lifestyle, your wants always end up matching your means. Make $30M, blow it on a wife who wants a chalet in Zurich and divorces you once she sees the first ski instructor that clearly won the genetic lottery. Make $500k, use it to remodel the library with custom furnture because your wife hates the fact that you bought your bookshelves ready assembled over a decade. What I'd like to know is if there is a break in the cycle. Because, it doesn't really matter how much you make if everyone defines wealth the gypsy way, where the gypsies define wealth by how much one has spent. The reason why I never did that path in life was because I never knew that was even a possibility until long after I disqualified myself from that sort of work. No one ever seems to leave the game.
Then again, I can't complain how this life turned out. Have a job that I can completely be a utter ***** and still be paid good money, people that no one on this forum would have any problem treating like dirt or sending them off to destroy each other after meeting those pretty little sociopaths for 10 minutes (Presidential Management Fellows and PAS-2's), married to someone who deeply cares about me and tolerates my bad habits while being the breadwinner. It would kill me not to work, I'd be too lazy to get out of bed (literally), so that's my major motivation.
