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If You Didn't Need Money, What Would You Do?

Posted by Cliff on from the trade-and-barter dept.

permaculture had this simple but philosophical query to run by you all, today: "I was once asked this question: 'If you didn't have to work for money, what would you do with your time?' I've put that question to many people since I first heard it, and got a lot of different answers. It seems to me that the answer to this question is what you should be aiming for even though you do have to spend most of your time earning a crust."

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  1. Easy by quintessent · · Score: 3, Funny

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  3. You mean besides 2 chicks at once? by smalloy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

  4. I'd do what I'm doing now... by blackcoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... which is something I guess many people can't say. Of course, I'll eventually grow out of the student phase, but I'm hoping that I'll have my tenure by then ;-)

  5. two chicks at once by Satai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
    Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
    Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
    Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
    Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
    Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on me do.
    Peter Gibbons: Good point.
    Lawrence: What about you, what would you do?
    Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
    Lawrence: Well yeah.
    Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
    Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
    Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
    Lawrence: Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.

  6. Re:Does this mean I have all the money I need? by trentfoley · · Score: 3, Funny
    and grow and harvest my own hay

    Call it whatever you want. We know what you mean :)

  7. besides two chicks at the same time? by cpex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously I would enjoy eternal school and spending time with the wife and kids. I am still working on my BSCE but i could see myslef in school for a lot more, then maybe become a seeminly absent minded prof and confuse students all day long and then go and play with my "LASER" (in a dr. evil voice). yes i know that my subject line has been used but i couldnt pass it up

  8. I had a idea once by ealar+dlanvuli · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was a jump to conclusions mat. See, one would stand at one end, and there would be conclusions writen all over it. You would then jump, and land on a conclusion. Get it?

    Thats what I'd do if I didn't have to worry about money.

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  9. Fisherman story by rastos1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Guy: Hey, I'm watching you for two hours already and you just sit there with one fishing line ... can't you think of something better?
    Fisherman: What do you mean?
    Guy: Well, if you had 2 or 3 fishing lines you could get more fishes...
    Fisherman: And than?
    Guy: You could go to the market and sell them!
    Fisherman: And than?
    Guy: You could earn some money!
    Fisherman: What would I do with that?
    Guy: You could by a small boat and a net and fish more!
    Fisherman: And than?
    Guy: You sell the fishes and earn even more!
    Fisherman: And than?
    Guy: You could by a big boat and hire a crew and they could fish for you! You could be a milionare, you could just sit here all day and ... oh wait ...