Money would be nice! Work if I could find it - but then not any sould destroying grind. Give me a challenge & I won't object to money. You can't do much without it, in most places anyway.
I have heard it said (by who first?) "I have been miserable and poor, and I have been miserable and rich. And on balance rich is better!"
BUT no! life is not about money, money is a parameter - an enabler.
I have a friend who is so tied-up in his need to have a pension of a size he deems necessary that he is content to do a well paid job that he hates - (hates only because of ethical considerations that most of us have few qualms about). He is not a happy bunny by and large. But my feeling is he has to like himself "as is" and I suspect his "comfortable" retirement (whenever) will be dogged by insecurity and self doubt. Much as his life is now!