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So if you had a billion dollars sloshing around in your bank account...and you could do the things that interested you the most, it would be having a job to go to?

I'm not knocking that, I know lots of people who hit retirement and literally don't know what to do with themselves. So work gives their day structure and meaning. I'm not one of those people. For me, work gets in the way of what I want to do.

I personally cannot conceive of a job, working for any company (my own included) or any other person or group of people, that I'd rather do than those things.

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First of all, I don't have a job. I run my own consulting business that does very well. I don't think I could ever have a job working for someone else ever again.

That is my entire point, that I keep getting downvoted on like it even matters. That what I do today is the same thing that I would do if I had a billion dollars. That is I'd be working in technology (specifically software). I might use that money to build ideas faster but it really is what I am the most passionate about.

I feel it is the same for the Occulus Rift guys at the moment.

Because if you aren't passionate about what you spend your daily life doing (and consider it a grind) what is the point?

I'm not going to make any value judgment on how much fulfillment you get out of working for your customers.

But you're getting downvoted probably because you don't understand that, as a consultant, you have a job, and you work for your customers.

Everybody who does work has a boss of some sort.

If being a consultant is what you'd be happy to do in perpetuity, even in lieu of retirement, more power to you.

The OR guys also now have a master. Facebook. Ultimately, their reporting chain is to Zuck and then to the board and then to the FB shareholders. They might feel really passionate about what they're doing, but it's not like they don't have jobs.

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

I think that this quote is very much true. Take it how you wish to.

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