# If money were no object, what would you spend your life doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658 "2013-01-18T23:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/41 "2013-01-19T17:46:01Z")
1. Full time University Student / Researcher / Musician / Explorer / Filmmaker / Chef / Scrabble / Gamer / Athlete / Dancer / Ladies Man. 2. Well money for most of them. Time for the rest. If only I could live to be 500. All are parts of my life in some form (to varying degrees of success) ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/42 "2013-01-19T20:45:45Z")
Working with animals more, especially horses & dogs, rescue, etc. I am, to an extent, but wish I could do so much more. Unfortunately, it is money, not love, that makes the world go 'round. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/43 "2013-01-19T21:01:16Z")
> [@Mornac](#): > > I’d pay off the national debt on the condition that Barrack Obama takes an early retirement and that the Supreme Court restores the Constitution to its original state. To its _original_ state? Are you mad?! Anyway… 1. Dog sitter. 2. I’d like to be paid more than $7/hr. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/44 "2013-01-19T21:05:09Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > 1. traveling the world > 2. I am doing as much as I can afford to but, you know, money. Ditto. We’ve been out of the country three times in the last three years. Going to eastern Europe in the fall for a month or so. Maybe South Africa in 2014. In the meantime I spend about 6-7 months a year on the road. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Bisector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Bisector](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Bisector)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/45 "2013-01-19T21:20:34Z")
My impossible one would be: 1. Intergalactic diplomat. 2. Because yea. Realistic dream: 1. Get a nose job THEN do what I always wanted to do: Hang out and screw hot chicks. 2. No money for the nose job. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/46 "2013-01-19T21:39:07Z")
1. Travel a lot. 2. Money? I’ve heard of it… ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/47 "2013-01-19T21:45:57Z")
Possibly the most meaningful question that can be asked. I think this phrasing is wrong, though, in some ways. There’s a difference between asking “what would you do if you had unlimited amounts of money to spend” and “what would you do if money were not the driving factor in doing it.” Most of the answers here seem to be “I would do \_\_\_\_ if I could afford the extremely high costs of it.” Maybe answers to the second form lead to a more meaningful answer - what would you do if money were not the driving factor, and if you’re not doing that, why do you feel you have to do things where it is? ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/48 "2013-01-19T22:22:36Z")
I _think_ I’m pretty much doing what I’d be doing anyway. I might do it in nicer digs if I were a billionaire, but I enjoy novels, movies, shows, games, browsing the internet, and hanging out with friends. Those are pretty cheap hobbies. I can’t think of any expensive hobbies I’d enjoy… About the only expensive thing I enjoy is eating at nice restaurants, and I can afford all but stuff like the Ritz on a semi-regular basis (limited more by friends generally being disinterested in nice food and it being less fun alone than money). ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/49 "2013-01-19T23:31:38Z")
1. I’d go back to school and either become a doctor or nurse practitioner (neurology). 2. Because money IS an object and I have a family to support. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/50 "2013-01-20T00:43:19Z")
> [@Black\_Bisector](#): > > My impossible one would be: > > 1. Intergalactic diplomat. > 2. Because yea. > > Realistic dream: > > 1. Get a nose job THEN do what I always wanted to do: > Hang out and screw hot chicks. > 2. No money for the nose job. Are we doing impossible dreams? If so I want to change mine to explorer of modes of consciousness in a post singularity society. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/51 "2013-01-20T01:32:56Z")
1. I’d go back to school. 2. Money’s an object. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/52 "2013-01-20T10:54:09Z")
1. Flying around the world in a seaplane watching eclipses. 2. (a) I’ve yet to learn to fly. (b) Eclipses are rare, and watchable ones rarer still. © Lack of money. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/53 "2013-01-20T13:20:09Z")
1. I’d quit my job, buy the Washington Post, and turn it into an actual liberal newspaper. Lord only knows why people think a newspaper which has largely embraced the neocon vision of the world abroad, and wants to cut programs like Social Security and Medicare at home, is liberal. But they do. I’d love to turn it into the newspaper it’s accused of being. 1. Money, of course. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/54 "2013-01-20T14:20:08Z")
I’d just do more of what I do when I’m not at work. I’d just do it from nicer homes and cars. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/55 "2013-01-20T18:12:01Z")
To answer the first question: I’d make art. I’d self-fund everything so I can retain creative control, and put it out there, as much quality stuff as I could in the time I have. Hopefully not needing the money nor having the interference of the Big Studios would mean something of a revolution in art, what it can be, and what it says. Why I’m not, same as everyone else: money, duh. I’m barely making rent, and even “low-budget” films cost upwards of $20K. To say nothing of film festival entry fees, cost of distribution, etc. I tried making a micro-budget film. As it turns out, people, even friends, even people in it for the love of the art, are far less reliable when you can’t pay them. The cinematographer abruptly stopped returning my calls, and he still has all the footage. Even making a photo book would be similarly expensive. You’d need to pay the models, make-up artists, costumers, etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/56 "2013-01-20T18:20:34Z")
Suppose living a reasonable life cost you far less than it now does, or less than you imagine it would cost. How would that change your answer? ---
**Author:** ![SweetiePotato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SweetiePotato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetiePotato)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/57 "2013-01-20T18:36:15Z")
1. Move to LA and become a hard rock singer 2. I sing a lot of karaoke… ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/58 "2013-01-20T19:25:14Z")
1 Running alot of SCA events 2 the need to eat. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/59 "2013-01-20T19:56:43Z")
Not to hijack, but I was watching a show about people who win lotteries, receive inheretances or other massive windfalls and the various problems they have. Interestingly, one of the problems is that they now have the money to do all the stuff they say they would do if money wasn’t an issue, except they still don’t do any of that stuff. But now they get all depressed because they don’t have “no money” as an excuse. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658/60 "2013-01-20T21:57:52Z")
playing video games, eating at every restaurant i’ve always wanted to eat at, and doing those things in countries i’ve always wanted to visit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-what-would-you-spend-your-life-doing/647658.md?page=4)