What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?
tjr: I like to create new things; develop new ideas and build them.  In most jobs, you are but a cog in the machine, and have relatively little creative allowance.  I just churn out code per requirements, or test code per requirements, or write requirements per requirements.  Not a whole lot of in-depth thinking seems to occur.Personal time off, and ability to set my own schedule.  In a job, my ability to take time off to travel, do volunteer work, do research, whatever, is not so much limited by a lack of money as it is by a lack of formal vacation time.  If I want to take two months off a year, and have the money to do so, then I want to be able to do it.  If I want to set my own hours to best suit other things in my life, I don't want to be confined to the general expectation of 8-5 M-F.And yes, money does play a factor.  In most jobs, you and your peers make the same salary plus or minus 5%, regardless of how hard you work or how inventive you are.  If I can work harder and/or smarter and produce something worth more money to more people, then why should I not reap the financial benefits of my labor?There certainly are advantages to working at a regular job, among them fairly reliable income and insurance benefits and what-not.  But even so, employment can be fickle.  If "the economy" turns sour, your job may not be as stable as it seems.(Actually, I would advocate spending time running multiple diverse business projects, to help balance out "the economy".)