[Fern]

I agree with Sharon, the job is a necessity that pays the bills and allows me to prepay the mortgage and put something away for retirement. Even tho i've been here just 1/5 years, it's in a very interesting industry (i'm a marketing writer) like nearly every job i've had, things tend to get a bit routine and dull after a while.

If i won the lottery i would still want to work, mainly for social reasons and to keep my mind alert, but i would limit it to maybe 2 days a week, volunteer another day and the rest of the time would be mine, all mine. But i don't play the lottery, so guess that won't happen.

I've been fortunate to have had mostly very interesting and unique writing jobs, it's just that nearly anything will become boring if you do that, and nothing else, exclusively. Working for yourself like Jeffrey is different, you have much more autonomy over your schedule, and i have experienced that, but working for an employer usually involves constraints of many kinds.