What would you do if you were independently wealthy?

Well I'd shop, and workout and sleep in and probably have a drinking problem (ok a bigger drinking problem) I'd all the self absorbed things I don't have enough time for now.

Back when I had a full time job I was griping about work to a colleague. She asked me what I would do if money were no object. Apparently this is the question you ask yourself when you want to figure out what you want to be when you finally grow up. My response? Nothing. If I had unlimited funds I would do nothing. Interestingly enough this is pretty much what I did for about four months after being laid off from that job. I did lots of stuff, some of which I was paid for but nothing that I really considered work. But, I think that reaction was in direct correlation to how awful the job was. I worked for a non profit that burned through piles of money and accomplished nothing. Apparently others were getting things done while my department was spending money on important things like consultants and sub-consultants. Similar to the experience I had after accidently* running a 10k. After that grueling race I didn’t run for nearly three weeks. I was not anxious to revisit the source of that pain. Likewise after nearly three years in an awful job I needed to stay away from that

Commuter highlight: Unknown, I slept on the way to work this morning. Although on the way home I spent about ten minutes trying to figure out if a fellow commuter was a homeless person talking to themselves or if they were on a phone.