i was making millions wito living on basically a thousand dollars a month. I never did anything that didn't make me happy, i think could go on indefinitely. You can get a happy job as a forest ranger or a mailman or a bike messenger. As long as you keep costs low, your expenses low, you can live a basic living. If you spend expensive decisions in your life, if you spend a hundred thousand dollars on a university,  then you made the choice to do something very, very expensive. To pay for this, you would have to do more than just what makes you happy. So when somebody says, oh, man, i can't just do what