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Originally Posted by luxinterior
I already realize that I am in the process of throwing away my chance at a successful future, just because I want to be a writer, or a teacher, or a writing teacher. Or a teaching writer. And everyone tells me that I'm not ambitious enough, and that I can be so much better, and make much more money doing this or that. But really I know that I could be content working in a used bookstore. I don't really care about my job. I don't care what my money comes from (although I prefer hard labor because I feel like I've earned it that way). I just try to focus on being a better person than I think I am, and being good to other people, except when I'm insulting them, and I think that will bring me more happiness than anything else could.
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That's exactly where I'm at right now. Same subject, too. Money is supposed to make you happy. If you can be happy without it, you don't need it. Do what makes you happy. I would be miserable as a corporate millionaire. I'd be perfectly content as a teacher/writer just getting by. (Er...So long as my wife is happy and kids are taken care of - that'll be a priority that I don't really have yet.) Life is not as hard as it seems.