Thanks for a very honest post.

I think a lot of people can relate to what you're saying. I know I can.

In college I had enough money to pay for school but still got "free loans", did I save? Hell no, I was going to "make it big" so I figured I should live it up while I could in school.

When I entered the workplace (computer engineering at the biggest chipmaker in the world) I saw it was for what it was, a rat race. I thought it was going to be like in Atlas Shrugged where people were being creative and coming up with new and exciting new ideas, changing the world. But it wasn't, it was a contest to look better than the guy in the next cube over. I quit and went with a smaller, but similar company where I do not get paid as much but am closer to family.

I think in school we all had a skewed view of what we really want in life. Heck, I think I probably will have a much different view of what I really want in 10 years from now.