I want to be a writer who gets to travel and has a big fat expense account . Freelance would be great but Lord knows how I would screw up my taxes...

What I really really want is to be independently comfortable so that money wasn't what I worried about every minute of the day. I'd like to have my degree completed and be debt free. I'd like to be entirely fluent in at least one language, ideally in 2 or 3. I'd like to be able to spend my time doing what I want instead of what I must. I used to work in a headstart program for homeless children and I loved it but found that I can't live without a liveable wage, or the promise of one at least. So I guess it's either independent wealth or disavowing consumer culture...but I can't figure out how to swing either.