If you were set for life would you still work?
I wouldn't. Life is short and I have things to do. Maybe I would do some service stuff to be useful but I wouldn't go to a job everyday.
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If you were set for life would you still work?
I wouldn't. Life is short and I have things to do. Maybe I would do some service stuff to be useful but I wouldn't go to a job everyday.
I would do some creative stuff like composing music...well it can be a real job but I'd personally do it for pleasure
I wouldn't be stupid as to blow it all in one month like one guy did once.
It would be a lot of money, that doesn't just mean a lot to spend. People would start to know unless you make sure you keep it, not entirely secretive, but enough to stop charities bombarding you and 'relatives' you've never heard of coming out of the woodwork...
I wouldn't still work but I'd make sure I'd still have a routine, making sure I'd set challenges for myself, not 'I have a lot of money so I don't need to do anything, my life is set'. Can't cure illnesses and stop accidents either.
I rarely play the lottery, but the few times I do, it tends to be when the huge jackpots are up for grabs. The running contingency plan is that as soon as I find out I've won I hop a plane for somewhere and spend like a month on vacation, then come back and claim my winnings. Unlike the stupid people, I do not take a lump sum, because that's just plain stupid.
I would invest the money won in order to redouble it. That would have become my new job since then. :)
I voted that I would work. Just a natural desire to keep myself gainfully busy after spending all that money on girls :lol:
Hey, why don't we start a lottery club here? :lol: :D
What was that saying, the devil's hands is a man without work?
Honestly, I can imagine how boring life would be if there wasn't some work involved, something that makes you feel like you did a good days job. That is if you enjoy your work, of course, if I was a toilet cleaner, I would of course have quit...
You need someting to do, you can't just sit around on your arse all day, you will degenerate as a person! My 2 coupon tickets.
I would become some type of artist.
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Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
But I am motivated enough to keep busy on my own, I don't need a job to make me do it.
Me too!--- And you already are an artist...well a musician anyway, same thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by DDT
Well, I guess some things you can't do alone. Take Bill Gates for example, no doubt he is richer than all of us put together, but he goes to meetings, meets with foreign leaders and runs his charitable business. It is all work. But he gets something out of it, and not only him.
What would you do specifically Biannca?
For starters maybe I would learn enough Russian to write my own letters so you wouldn't have to forge them for me :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
I would skate and read all the time. And maybe do some painting.
Well perhaps I would move to Paris and take up smoking clove cigarettes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biancca
HAH!Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
I'd go travel around the world, surf, skii etc untill I get sick of it. Then, I'll figure something to do after. Oh of course I am going to be investing.
After thinking it over, I have to say that I wouldn't work if I won the lottery (provided that the amount coming in was enough to assure my well-being for the rest of my life). Not because I am lazy per se, but because I would want to spend much of my time travelling, and the rest of my time doing research and studying whatever comes to mind. So I guess, in a sense, it would still be a form of work, just nothing like what I do now.
If I was wealthy, regardless of how the wealth was attained, I would continue to work. Work gives me a sense of pride and usefulness. If I did not work, I would just get drunk and gamble every day and that is probably not healthy.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwatts59
One word answer "sailboat"
Nope, I would move to California with my band and pay them money to make music full time. I would also get a studio and a venue!
Why california? We have strict smoking laws here.
I don't know whether what I do for a living can technically be called 'work' anyway, but no, probably not. If I had the money, I'd probably just spend my whole life travelling.
I would definately start my own business... maybe a bar or something like that. I would also take many liberties with travelling and such as well.
NOOOO!!! Don't start a business. Unless you want to die young. It is too much work, everybody steals, too many taxes, not enough money, too many headaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdk2fe
I'd stay a student at university for ever, learning loads of different languages and never give any money to charity! Bah humbug
Don't care about smoking, Cali is where the "scene" is at.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
You know, everybody hypes up Cali like its a great place. I've been to Diego and LA, and have to say I really didn't like the cities all that much. It's all just too.... plastic for me. Go someplace with character.
I know, mod it to flaimbait, but its 8am, i have a final in 2 hrs, and i'm grumpy.
tdk
Heh that was me this morning. Luckily the final was Russian and I completely destroyed it. :evil:Quote:
Originally Posted by tdk2fe
with the money earned I would work for myself, trying to bend the reality to my will
Mwahaha...
The things I could do.
I'd invest it in my plan to rule the world once civilization ends.
I WILL CONTROL ALL THE POULTRY! AND COWS.
AND GOATS
I would still do the same thing, but probably start my own contracting company, so I could come and go as I please... But yeah, I really like what I do, so I wouldn't just not work.
-Fantom
I second Fantom. It's exactly what I was thinking - I like what I'm doing, but not to depend on the work schedule would be really nice - I could do some more traveling then.