Well, if you care about money, you find something you're both good at and that you enjoy doing, and you try and teach yourself delayed gratification. Real, freedom-giving amounts take years, probably a decade or thereabouts. So, optimize for learning and enjoyment early on anyway.
Considering a large reason for picking my jobs used to be what % extra salary they paid, I wish I could go back and tell myself that.
I don't know a single suicide attempter, so can't comment on suicide as an out. I saw most humans adapt to stress pretty well. If you read WWII pilot biographies (e.g. First Light by Wellum, a classic!) they were under immense stress and yet just kept going until they had a breakdown, at which point they spent a few weeks in London to recuperate and headed back to the airfield. Humans are remarkably resilient...
Get a castle! They're really cheap at the moment. They'll cost you about the same as a decent villa in a big city, involve a bit more driving and maintenance, but then you have a castle which can become your family home, with grounds, and probably designed by an architect who really knew what he was doing. Beats yet another modernist, out of place horror on a cliff that will probably collapse in 20 years...
Considering a large reason for picking my jobs used to be what % extra salary they paid, I wish I could go back and tell myself that.
I don't know a single suicide attempter, so can't comment on suicide as an out. I saw most humans adapt to stress pretty well. If you read WWII pilot biographies (e.g. First Light by Wellum, a classic!) they were under immense stress and yet just kept going until they had a breakdown, at which point they spent a few weeks in London to recuperate and headed back to the airfield. Humans are remarkably resilient...