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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. School. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd go and take classes in whatever interested me. Possibly become a doctor of something. Then dedicate my life to helping others*.

    (Note: Getting revenge on those that bother me, such as religous fundies, classifies under "helping others".)

  2. Re:Perhaps, by psicE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You and Dashua are on the right track. It would be great if everyone could say the same as you, that the thing they're doing now is what they'd most like to do for 8 hours a day.

    Sadly, not everyone can say that. Many people are forced into doing a job that they dislike, or truly hate, just because they need the money and they have no options. Maybe no one's hiring in their field, or they don't like the particular job they have though they like the field, or maybe their field just doesn't lead to a specific line of work. Either way, it happens, and those people are who the question's directed at.

  3. Re:Work. by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Are you saying that if you had all the money you need you'd spend the rest of your days in your underwear eating Cheetos?

    I might. Or I might wander through the wilderness in quiet contemplation. Or analyze great tomes of philosophy in the Library. Journey across the world. Talk to interesting people. I

    It strikes me as sad that so many (perhaps not yourself) wouldn't be able to find something to do without asking some company or government for a job...