Originally Posted by
Adam Strange
No, I don't really identify with those things at all.
I don't gamble, I don't bet on sports games, I don't like to play poker, and I never wanted to be a millionaire.
I did want to win the lottery, but that is kind of a fairy tale.
I enjoy money to the extent that it makes my life easier in some ways. For example, I can usually pay my bills without sweating and I can hire people to do work that I don't want to do. I can also buy toys if I want, but I almost never want.
I don't really like accounting beyond seeing the bottom line, which tells me how I'm doing and if I have any extra cash that month. If I do have extra, I usually just reinvest it because I don't buy very much stuff. I live in a small house in a quiet neighborhood and drive a three-year old Honda. It was the first car I bought that was less than ten years old. I don't have a TV and don't listen to the radio. I get movies from the library and I don't buy much food, because I eat almost every meal in restaurants because I travel a lot and I suck at cooking.
The entrepreneurial side of things is interesting, not for the purpose of making money, but rather for the purpose of doing something new and interesting.
When I had no money and no easy way to get more of it, I would do a lot of things myself, like rewire my house or repair the engine in my car. However, I'm now in a position where I'm making more than electricians and mechanics and it has made me very aware of the time value of money. Now I almost always prefer to pay a professional to do stuff that I could do if I had to, but that I might not want to.