Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One

[Poolgod32]

Nice post Irie

One of the things I have learned as I have grown older (just a year or so behind Irie) is that money doesnt buy you things. It buys you time.
I have spent so much of my life getting ready for work, putting clothes on, taking a shower, eating breakfast, driving to work, at work, driving home from work, unwinding from work. To say that anyone works only 40 hours is a joke these days. For most people, all the "extras" add 10-20 hours a week more.
Money buys you time. We spend so much time in the pursuit of money that we have little left over at the end of the day to do the things we want to do. Rich people, really rich people, have so much time on their hands. They often get bored if they arent actively working on something. I believe thats why so many of them have lives just as messed up as the rest of us. With all that time on their hands, they have nothing to do but sit around and think about how meaningless their lives are. The houses, the cars, the boats, the vacations just wont make you happy. You have to find some bigger purpose. Many of them never find it and they are miserable.
I know a guy here in town who is a partner for a major accounting firm. Hes fairly young, mid 30s, with a wife and two kids. He lives in a $400,000 home in a nice section of town. His wife stays home with the kids. They drive nice cars, take great vacations, etc. On the surface, they appear to have it all.
She is miserable, She never sees him . She is raising the kids mostly by herself. She has no job, no career, no hobbies, nothing. He is miserable when hes not at work. He works minimum 70 hours a week and is worried when hes not at work that he should be at work. Their situation is so typical of people with money.
As Irie mentioned, time is the most precious gift we have. You dont know how much you have left. It could end tomorrow, next week or 30 years from now but it will end. Noone ever dies wishing they had spent more time at work or had made more money. You long for spending time doing the things you love with the people you love. If you can do that, then you have lived a better life than 95% of the population.