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Full time University Student / Researcher / Musician / Explorer / Filmmaker / Chef / Scrabble / Gamer / Athlete / Dancer / Ladies Man.
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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)
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. 
To its original state? Are you mad?! Anyway…
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Dog sitter.
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I’d like to be paid more than $7/hr.
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.
My impossible one would be:
- Intergalactic diplomat.
- Because yea.
Realistic dream:
- Get a nose job THEN do what I always wanted to do:
Hang out and screw hot chicks. - No money for the nose job.
- Travel a lot.
- Money? I’ve heard of it…
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?
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).
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I’d go back to school and either become a doctor or nurse practitioner (neurology).
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Because money IS an object and I have a family to support.
Are we doing impossible dreams? If so I want to change mine to explorer of modes of consciousness in a post singularity society.
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I’d go back to school.
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Money’s an object.
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Flying around the world in a seaplane watching eclipses.
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(a) I’ve yet to learn to fly. (b) Eclipses are rare, and watchable ones rarer still. © Lack of money.
- 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.
- Money, of course.
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.
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.
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?
- Move to LA and become a hard rock singer
- I sing a lot of karaoke…
1 Running alot of SCA events
2 the need to eat.
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.
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.