I didn't have the choice of not working, and housewife seems a job too, just an unpaid one. So yes in the sense of being motivated by survival, I aspire to make money, but not on a ladder or anything. Every year at the employee eval meeting "what do you want?" "Good interesting work, good pay, flexibility."

School was dreadful until college, which was not as bad. Even if you hated school, you might not hate university. I wouldn't say I liked it but it was not bad.