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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because most people who are rich that work don't do what you do. There's no brutal commute. There's no waking up and dragging out of bed on a cold morning. There is a lazy wake up to get to working whenever they want or managing folks who do all of the hard work. I say this as someone who probably doesn't need to work but puts in a solid 30 hours a week for a very large sum of money, no commute, and not a huge amount of stress. [/quote]

This. I don’t like to admit it but my job becomes easier and more flexible with experience and each promotion. This is not true for all professions — DH is an entrepreneur and his life is consistently crazy but he has a stoic mind and doesn’t get stressed easily / truly loves it. He never wants to retire. We both have a lot of flexibility (e.g. working from the south of France for a month over the summer with our families) even while working and mostly enjoy / find purpose in what we do. We also live in a VHCOL and a few million isn’t enough to live the life we want with our children, it would be more stressful than working. [/quote]

I had been working remotely for many years, it still sucks and I would rather do something else with my time when in South of France than being accountable to someone for my work and living up to someone else's deadlines.  I am self employed, but you never work for "yourself" when your business involves clients.  You have to cater to them, their whims, their timelines.  When they pay you they still own your time.  If you have a product based business and employees to do you bidding, then maybe you can sit back, and even then people are still eager to sell their companies and cash out.  When they have the opportunity to get a lump sum for their business they sell instead of "enjoying running it". [/quote]

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