Before I start this rant, I would like to note that I am aware of exactly how blessed I am in so many ways. I don’t want to come off as complaining, just expressing my dislike for the struggle that is trying to make a living. Plus I am bored and this was the only thing on my mind. 

I hate work. Have I mentioned that I hate work?

Don’t get me wrong, I have a great gig. My hours are flexible, they offer me a LOT of time off and  unlike most places they pay all my insurance. 90% of the people I work with are great folks who are easy to get along with and probably 9% of the rest are tolerable. This post is not about that 1%. This post is about hating to actually GO to work.

Once I get here, I don’t so much mind it. The act of getting up, driving in and driving back just makes me crazy. Gas prices and the fact that I could do almost my entire job remotely don’t help.

So the plan is, if I could get $5 million free and clear (after taxes and debt payed off) and I put it in the bank at 5% interest I could pull down $250k/year and never have to leave the house. $5 million is a little hard to come by. You can’t make that much by knocking over a bank (not that I would) winning the lottery is hard (especially since we don’t have one in Alabama) and other means of obtaining such funds either falls under the category of “shady” or “illegal” at this point in my life.

I’m open to suggestions that don’t involve any of the above options (I would not be averse to winning the lottery, but again there is a level of difficulty there and it isn’t exactly a great investment strategy). If I have a rich uncle, I don’t know him. If I do have a rich uncle, there is a good chance he doesn’t know me. Welfare is no fun and it violates my principles.

For now I guess I will just keep getting up to go to work, spending my retirement money on luxury items like gasoline and food. Maybe someday I will find a spare $5 million laying around and someone will say “Just keep it… you’ve worked long enough”.

Maybe.