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

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."

Comments

You mean besides 2 chicks at once?

[smalloy]

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

two chicks at once

[Satai]

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.

If it were up to me...

[j-turkey]

If I didn't have to show up at work, and I still got paid, I would do the following

• Sleep later
• Get a part time job (or contract) to supplement my income
• Probably smoke alot more pot
• Get serious about my music...learn to play better and put a real band together
• Read
• Chill with my friends
• Devote more time to amateur auto racing
• Watch more TV & movies
• Do more fun computer stuff (ie, not the stuff I do all day at work)
• More sex
• Masturbate
• Ski
• Write angry letters to politicians
• Excercise more
• Work on old cars
• Possibly experiment with some new (to me) psychoactive/hallucinogenic drugs -- such as DMT and peyote
• Cook better food
• Start a business
• Maybe get married and start making babies
• Basically, do all of the shit that I fantasize about while I'm at work all day

Why are you asking? Are you looking for the best answer and then giving that person a stipend to quite their job? If you are...I can come up with fifty other things I'd rather do.

--Turkey

Raising a family

[trentfoley]

I'm not certain that I would have necessarily chosen this path, but it happened. And, I really like it. About two years ago, I got fed up with cubicle life. After 20+ years of "hacking for the man", I was burned out. Fortunately, my wife's law practice was doing well, so I quit my job and began to look for a career change. I have two (4 and 7 yrs old) boys. I ended up pulling my kids out of day care and have not looked back. I have had one of my best summers ever. My 7 yr old just stated back to school (2nd grade) and I've been teaching my youngest his letters and numbers in preparation for Kindergarten next year.

But, the number one reason I enjoy it so much: I get to play with Lego's every day!