[TrackerFF]

I once asked my first boss - worth tens of millions - why don’t you just sell your company, and retire for good? Instead of working 10-12 hours, 6-7 days a week?

He simply told me that he’d go crazy from boredom, and that the business was his life. He loved the work, his clients, his employees, everything about it.

The man was on his second heart-attack, pending divorce, but that’s what he loved doing.

He’s now in his mid 60s, and still doing the same. Some people are just made to work.

[silverquiet]

I think I may be slowly turning into this (sans the tens of millions) and I don't really have as much problem with it as a younger me would have expected. My problem is more finding work that I think actually adds value to the world and doesn't cause me burnout. Turns out if I have work that doesn't destroy my soul, I'm willing to keep doing it; it's one of the main things keeping the nihilism from creeping in.

[mooreds]

I had a discussion with someone in similar position. He implied that at a certain point it is about succeeding and keeping score, rather than about the money.

The people who would bail out and live on a beach are probably the kind of people who wouldn't have the success to do so. (I count myself amongst them.)

[jjtheblunt]

> Some people are just made to work.

I wonder if he would think of it as some people just are made to play, which in his case happens to align with what others call work...hence the tens of millions.