MagicalSilverKey wrote:
Yeah, and then you could punch a clock for your customers instead.
Seriously, entrepreneurship is hard. It ain’t the bed of roses all those popular go-into-business-for-yourself books make it out to be.
First off, I would pay off all of my student loan crap. Then, I would buy my father a nice house in the country. Then, I’d invest it as wisely as I could and live off the interest as best I could. If I needed to, I would get a fun job, one that I enjoyed doing, even if the pay wasn’t that great.
Oh, and I’d call FOX and ask if they’d want to go a “Who Wants to Date a Multi-Millionaire?” special, so that I could finally have a girlfriend.
Ah. I’d party. And I’d throw the money in the air and let it fall on me, and I’d have it all converted into shiny gold coins and go swimming in it. I’d have me a good ole time. Oh also: person who thought up this thread, what is your current job?
I’d invest all of it in something secure, like savings bonds or GICs. Then I’d buy a nice condo and never work again. I’d just treat each year like a 365-day-weekend. Either that or get several college degrees (biology, psychology, and business to name a few). If I do buy a bunch of expensive stuff, the first thing I’ll buy is a new Jaguar XKR. That would be spiffy.
I’d buy a big catamaran and sail around the South Pacific islands… 
I’d just quit one of my jobs… then keep the one I REALLY like doing (that doesn’t pay enough to live off of now), and pretend that I’m getting paid ALOT of money to do it.
And buy a house, and a car, and most of my family members the same…
I’d certainly quit my “career”, but I’d probably want to keep busy at something I really enjoy. I’d probably try to become an astronomer (a much easier task when you have no money worries).
I’d buy a 5-bedroom house with a 4-car garage, then go look for a girlfriend to move in with me now that I have enough space for her, whoever she is.
Oh, and I’d get a great big 400-Troy-ounce gold ingot, just because I could.
I would spend the rest of my days running hospitality suites at science fiction conventions around the world.
I’d still work if it was in an area I loved, but in addition to work, I’d do nice things for people. You know, donate money, etc to places that need it. I’d also do a lot more volunteering for organizations by not having to work so much if that had happened.
After I’ve hired a hit man to take concrete out. I’d try to do as little as possible and travel a lot.
With $10 million, I think I’d continue to be a student of anything that interested me (though maybe part-time, after I’m finished this degree), and do a lot of travelling with my husband (who I’m sure would give up work in a heartbeat!). And probably also some emotionally-rewarding volunteer work. I certainly wouldn’t take on or stick with a job I didn’t enjoy.
Yeah, but IF you have ten million do you really care if you lose money on this business? Invest the ten million so that you make like 700K a year in interest or whatever. It’s all hypothetical anyway so I’m not doing any math here. I’m making up the numbers as I go. Maybe I’d have a book store and maybe I’d lose 200K a year just keeping it running. That still leaves me 500K a year!
Open/close the shop when you want and tell any a$$hole customers to F off.
Sounds good to me!
With so many good charities BEGGING for volunteers, I would feel ashamed to work for money. I would donate time to pediatric AIDS or something like that.
I would also be a permanent high bidder on ebay!
I’d split the money into thirds. One third would go to the best investment banker I could find, who I would instruct to find as many ways to make my money earn money as possible, thus hopefully insuring that my days of blue collar toil would be over forever. Another third would go into a trust fund for phianthropic projects and charitable causes. The final third would be reserved for my personal use, including the construction of a dream house and state of the art recording studio. Also lots and lots of American horse piss beer.
Since I don’t “work” any more, I can’t quit.
But would I hire someone to do all the chores I do now, raising twins? In about a second.
I definitely wouldn’t work the typical 9 to 5 grind. Just some part time work, around 20 hours a week, where I interact with people. They don’t necessarily have to be customers, just people.
I’d like to stay home and do nothing, but when I think about, it’d get really boring after awhile. Because, I mean, you’d never be able to call up your friends to do something because they’d be working. Anything you do would be pretty much by yourself, since everyone else is gonna be at work.
Sure, you could always do stuff with your SO, but even then, you can only do so much with them. So, at least with some part time work, I’m interacting with actual humans and not suffering from cabin fever or something of the like.