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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re rich and I’m on maternity leave right now. True, I’m not stressed. I’ve known money stresses and they’re terrible.

But I am so. bored. The meaninglessness swallows you whole. Every problem, solved with money. Lacking in real problems, I find myself fixating on nonsense small things wrong with my house like a bit of missing trim or places where the paint isn’t straight. Also wildly overplanning eldest DD’s birthday party. Maybe I’m just a boring person but it’s not fun at all for me to be idle. [/quote]

I am sure you know this, but: find a cause you are interested in and volunteer. For the cause and for you. [/quote]

Well first, as I said, I’m on maternity leave, but second, volunteers are usually just potential donors being pandered to. Rare will an organization hand over the reins for meaningful work. [/quote]

This strikes me as just so sad.  The problem is not that you have money.  The problem is that, right now, for whatever reason, you lack the reason to find an interest to be engaged in.  I SAH, and am well-off enough by most standards to be considered wealthy (private schools, part-time maid, etc).  But I always have a million projects I'm genuinely interested in.  When my kids were babies I was really engaged in learning about child development, I've gone through phases of being really involved in learning how to cook certain things, I've gotten into photography, I enjoy writing and I'm an avid reader.  There are so many hobbies I'd love to learn about and become engaged in, my limit is definitely not money but time.  Truly.  Don't you have any interests to pursue?  Hobbies to start?  Things about the world or history or politics you want to learn about and be engaged in?

If you are bored because you are exhausted from taking care of a newborn and don't have the energy to start something new, I totally understand.  But that's quite different than being bored because you have too much money![/quote]

On leave I have completed a big professional development course, done some large scale abstract paintings, perfected some recipes. But yes I am still mostly just bored despite my hobbies. Maybe I’m some sort of adrenaline junkie tho it never occurred to me before that that might be why I work. [/quote]

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