'Stop hassling me, man -- I just gotta be me!'

So Bill Gates is removing himself from hands-on day-to-day operations at Microsoft, and who can blame him? Now he can finally take some time to find himself, maybe by traveling cross country in a VW van or taking a backpacking trip around Europe.

I'm sure his parents don't like the idea, but I say it takes real guts to walk away from the steady paycheck in search of something really fulfilling. Of course, the fact that he's worth $100 billion is a nice cushion.