Excerpt from "This is Water" Commencement by David Foster Wallace

Why don’t you just move to Thailand and become a scuba diving instructor. I had a colleague trader making $300K/year but he despised the industry and the culture. He packed his $hit and turned his back on a 6 figure salary. He never looked back. 6 years later, he doesn’t regret a thing.

I’m going to give this clothing company a go first. Then I’ll move on to plans B, C and or D as I come up with them. But I think I may be one of those people.

Thailand with a good bank role is my plan Z. If all else fails I can retire there effective tomorrow. It could be worse.

The irony here is that most of the opposing responses just help to make the author’s point.