Most of us will endure a slow, steady, dull pain. We will plod along in a career we may have chosen when we were 18 years old. The excitement of buying something is real, but it is fleeting. We don't have to wait for life to hurt too bad to stand it, before we decide to make a change. I'm not saying that all possessions are bad or that money is bad.
Possessions are neutral.
They are just things. Money is a tool. But possessions or money will never fill the place inside us that God put there. It can only be filled by a relationship with Him that will provide us with purpose. Yes, a career, a job, a way of making a living is important.