What work would you do if money were no object? It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves, and it’s surely a question some are asking now.
It’s interesting to think about while watching Tiger Woods play golf at the Masters Tournament. Money is plainly no longer a factor for him, though he’s working. And if we’re being realistic, he’s not working on golf nearly as much as he’d like to. The barriers to work at this point are physical for Woods. His body plainly can’t handle the hours, days, months and years that he’d love to be putting into golf. Still, it’s not nothing that Woods continues to play even though he doesn’t need to financially, and even though he’ll physically pay for working.
Think of all this with Wes Dorsett, father of Tony, well in mind. As he used to say to his kids about life in Aliquippa’s steel mills, “Come in this place, you don’t know if you’re coming out. And if you do you might be missing an arm or eye or leg.” In the steel mills that politicians oddly romanticize, retirement was the goal. It was the exhale point, particularly if you made it to the end with arms, eyes and legs intact. Contrast that with Woods. He doesn’t need to work anymore, but does so while risking injuries of the kind that could include breaking his body so much that he can never play golf again.
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