I am doing exactly what I want to do, and getting punished for it by earning a pathetic income.
- Having/adopting children and raising them. Making wonderful suppers for friends and family. Living in my own home.
2)No job, no money, no nothing.
I don’t get the OP’s inclusion of 2) when 1) involves money being no object. Isn’t the answer to 2) necessarily going to be “uh, no money because you asked me what I would do if money were no object.” Is there something I’m misunderstanding? Really.
1.Travel the world, see new things, eat new things, learn new languages through exposure.
2.Travel is very expensive and I’m not rich, also I have a toddler who are not usually so keen on backpacking around the world.
…Yeah, Question 2 is kind of an enormous DUH? question… :dubious:
- Inventing money and making it an object.
- Because money is already an object.
Honestly, I’d be an academic. Full time. Studying, learning, teaching at a university level. Maybe more accurately - a professional polymath. Shit, I spend most of my free time reading, learning and getting lost in long wikipedia sessions. I love to learn, know and teach.
Why am I not doing that now? Money, I suppose. I need to earn a living, and at least for now I that by working in my field.
It’s not bad at all - I’m an engineer and a chemist, so the work is usually interesting. I’m constantly doing and learning new things. I also get real enjoyment every time I get to teach or train a new associate on our technology.
But there’s just so much other stuff I’m interested in. Science/Technology/Engineering is great, and I love it. But all the stuff I studied back in college - not only the STEM stuff, but literature, philosophy, art, culture, history - I’d love to be a professional polymath, learning always, travelling, teaching and lecturing often. And if, hey, I didn’t need to get paid, that’s what’d I’d do and be.
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.
Adopt some kids who really need it. (older kids, siblings)
Money is an object that I don’t have.
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Flying, skiiing, diving, golfing, motorcycling, shooting, and banging beautiful women.
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I do as much as funds allow
IANAB (I am not a Buddhist) but from the way I read the OP he’s asking, If you know your passion why aren’t you doing it already on whatever scale you can?
My answer:
- I try.
- I’d try harder.
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner in the “Obama-hatin’-we-can-shoehorn-irrational-criticism-of-him-into-any-thread-at-all!” contest, with special bonus points for misspelling ‘Barack’ AND for calling for a return to slavery, all in one! Good show!!
- Designing, building and sailing yachts, not unlike these.
- Don’t know a damn thing about designing and building yachts. I just know the sailing part.
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I don’t think I know what I would want to do. Thinking you know what you want and what you actually want aren’t the same thing. I don’t know for sure what I’d really want. I think I’d want to learn to sail solo, or travel around the world, or relocate to various hippy cities (SF, Portland, etc). Or work on global poverty efforts. But I wouldn’t know until I tried them.
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Afraid to try new things, plus it is a bad economy so I’ll stick with what works right now to pay the bills.
I would create a giant theme and camping park with the focus on creativity and social interaction. I actually have the plans all layed out but is still a work in progress. The goal would be to provide an enviroment where families could go and hopefully discover thier ideal medium for creative expression and passion. No leaders, no gurus, no teachers. The clientele and access to space, materials and tools would be the only attraction. The theme and focus would be the start of the machine age but the clients could take it anywhere they wanted. Music, plays, food preperation, tool making, inventers, artists etc would all be welcome.
I’d stick with what I’m doing now.
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more art, less programming, travel more, spend less time doing mundane things.
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I keep the balance as best I can in the absence of loads and loads of moolah.
That sounds pretty awesome, actually.
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I might start a non-profit. I have enough experience now with the inner workings of NGOs that I think I wouldn’t fuck it up too badly. And I would hire people whose skills made up for my inadequacies. Hell, I’d hire someone else to be Executive Director. I’d either be Development Director or be the Board Chair. The nonprofit would most likely provide mental health services to immigrants. Everyone on staff would be bilingual English/Spanish.
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Money. I’m doing the next best thing right now, which is program development and strategic planning for a nonprofit that serves Spanish speaking immigrants. I think I eventually will start a non-profit, but I want more experience first.
Yeah, pretty much this. I’d love to travel around and take pictures but unfortunately, the world is requiring that I have a job and an income. I know, bullshit, right? 
I hadn’t even thought of paying off the national debt. I do that! I’d pay off every nation’s debt! I’d pay off everybody’s credit card debt. Every problem that can be solved by throwing money at I would solve.
I’m curious what effect this would have on the world economy.
Other than that I would spend a lot of time reading, dancing, watching movies and surfing the internet. I already do a lot of that. I would spend no time cleaning house, doing yardwork or cooking.
and lots of lots of travel, which I do a bit, but less than I want because money is an object like everybody else said.
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I’d live in a soundproof dwelling of some kind in downtown Montreal, maybe with my sister, and I’d play clarinets all day. I’d go on fancy vacations with my friends.
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Money, and lack of enough talent to make it work.