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Longing for FU money sounds just like "getting a job where I have nothing to do" (maybe, slightly better). The idea of just idling all day, browsing your favorite sites seems so amazing, but when you do get that you realise the fulfilling-work imperative [1]. What you do everyday might be drudgery but it's more so when you have nothing on your todo list.

Getting rich might help you in having comforts without monetary considerations, and have more time with things you enjoy. All of it won't subdue the need to fulfilling work. While I can imagine some people who would happily spend all the riches on exorbitant possessions, the people who have a higher probability of making that amount of money might not have propensity to spend their lives in that manner.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/jobs/bored-to-tears-by-a-d...

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If I didn't have to work, I would up my tennis time from 10 to 20 hours a week, boxing from 0 to 10, Go from 1-2 to probably 10 as well. That alone would give me about a 40 hour week. This is the time my kid spends in school, give or take per week, so it wouldn't change my family time, but I'm betting I would be much more fun to be around me after days like these than after 8 hours of development work. (ps: this is what I try to do at least one week a year, I take time off from work while my kid is in school and do this)

I don't care about 'fulfilling' work, money, things. I love being physically active and improving in my hobbies.

>Longing for FU money sounds just like "getting a job where I have nothing to do" (maybe, slightly better). The idea of just idling all day, browsing your favorite sites seems so amazing, but when you do get that you realise the fulfilling-work imperative [1].

Or you need better hobbies and job substitutes than "idling all day, browsing your favorite sites"...

How I wish I could spend all day filled with programming and continuing my language learning. Instead I'm doing first year EE at university and it's hard to find time to sit back and not worry that I should be working right now.

Why are you doing EE if you want to program?

I missed the university entry requirements for CS in my mathematics qualification, so I was offered a place at the university to do EE instead, which I accepted.

That's ironic, EE usually has more math requirements than CS.

He could learn to paint! This isn't about idling, constrained by pretending to work.

A lot of people here seem to be confusing "wanting to do nothing" with "wanting to be able to do what I want".

A job where you idle all day sounds terrible because that's still 40 hours that just goes poof.

Rather, those 40 hours could go towards hobbies. And there's a lot of those.

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