[anonzzzies]

From the Netherlands and not having had to work since I sold my first company at 25 (over 25 years ago), I cannot do more than a week vacation before getting annoyed and bored. I like building stuff: programming, welding, soldering, guitar playing, cooking. But I have no patience for doing one thing: normally I code myself and vibe with multiple claude codes on the boil, my electric guitar is on my lap, there is either YouTube presentations from meetups/events or science podcasts on in the background and then there is cooking and soldering when I happen to get up from the desk. Or I go for a run or meet up with friends. When my friends tell me about their vacation, I fall asleep listening to it, let alone having to live through it. It is a Me thing and nothing wrong with them or me and luckily my wife is even worse, so we work almost nonstop generally. Never makes us exhausted though; quite the opposite.

[hattmall]

"Working" but not having to worry about money certainly doesn't sound very exhausting.

[anonzzzies]

Indeed. Saying the working is not the exhausting part sometimes, like the Swedish GP also indicated. You won't mind working a lot if you like the work and your life doesn't depend on it. In the EU (and nordics), depending on your wishes and choices, your life doesn't depend on it.

[hattmall]

He seemed to indicate he was wealthy from selling a company not the social supports of his country. I'm quite sure even most in the EU feel at least some aspects of their life depend on working which makes it more of a chore than a leisure activity.

[moltar]

I also don’t like stereotypical vacations and get bored on day 1.

Vacations don’t need to be stereotypical though. To me vacation nowadays means simply taking a break from my main money earning activity (typically a job, but I had a business before too).

When I travel these days I don’t even plan anything. Just land in the city and let it be. Just wonder around and explore. That’s it.

[yapyap]

Wow, I would like to hear the story of building and selling a company pre y2k

[anonzzzies]

The deal was made before the bubble burst here in the Netherlands and was completed after the collapse; the buyer paid the agreed upon price in cash and went on to be successful with it. It was a sign-of-the-times heavy Java (J2EE/EJB etc) enterprise XML catalogue/content management product.

[brabel]

Amazing that you managed to get set for life so early in life, not least with a J2EE product (though that was definitely the hot thing back then).

I am not quite set myself, but trying to :).