What Would You Do If Money Were No Object

[themyrmidon]

Start a tabletop gaming company. I love board and card games, like business management, and have a creative side. I'd like the chance to take a risk and start my own company.

That's the dream, anyway.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'd be at the Escapist expo for one, I'd travel constantly and have the best computer money could buy. Also giving heaps to charity.

 

[Miyenne]

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Also, her book is good. You guys should give it a read and buy.

Awww, you're so sweet. Thank you!

... I bought another lottery ticket.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

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Also, her book is good. You guys should give it a read and buy.

Awww, you're so sweet. Thank you!

... I bought another lottery ticket.

Maybe you'll get lucky this time and win big!
I'm guessing sales of the book aren't very high?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'd retire. I've never really liked this question used to mean "what kind of work would you do if you didn't need to work?" Because the only sane answer is "I wouldn't, I'd take that 8 hours + a day and use it however I saw fit." The only value in a hard day's work is what you get done during it, and what you get paid for it. The only reason anyone believes otherwise is because 19th century factory owners hijacked a 15th century Christian ideal in an attempt to ensure they'd always have a willing workforce.

 

[Frezzato]

if i had a lot of money, i would open up a game dev studio and hire a handful of artists and musicians, maybe even a writer. I already program my own little projects but i'm no artist, and the art is holding me back from ever releasing anything decent. So right now, i'm stuck with trying to persuade artists to work with me for... free. Yeah it's not going so well -_-

So i'm stuck with a crappy minimum wage job until i can hit some sort of success with game development. i'm also in college part time so things are pretty difficult for me financially. i have very little free time.

Even if i had just enough money to get by with rent for a few years, i would quit my job and dedicate 100% of my time to working on a game, if by the end of that time i couldn't manage to produce something worthy of selling, than i would know i'm not cut out for the job, but right now, i feel like the world is holding me back from doing what i really want to do. I can't help but feel that if i had been born into a better/wealthy family that i'd already be where i want to be.

So i know what the OP is going through, not exactly but quite similar.

What exactly do you mean by art? Are you talking 3D assets or just conceptual sketches or anything hand drawn?

 

[thedoclc]

I love what I do, so, as long as loans were paid, I'd be doing exactly what I'm doing.

Then again, if you read Alan Watts beyond the Zen Pencils sketch, there's a lot more to what he says...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I would stop worrying, maybe even get over my neurotic worrying and I may finally be truly happy.

...

Apartment, 3 bedroom. A room for my girlfriend and I, a room for her hobby stuff, a game room for me. Also travel...lots and lots of travel. Also every other console I don't yet have, including variations and, their respective libraries. Then comes the let's play videos.

 

[Miyenne]

Maybe you'll get lucky this time and win big!
I'm guessing sales of the book aren't very high?[/quote]

Nope, it hasn't been. I've found a publisher that'll accept it as a submission so I'm busy prepping all that right now. So we'll see how that goes in a few weeks/months/years from now.

 

[Wackymon]

Buy a medium sized house, buy a badass computer, buy a bunch of steam games on sale, buy the entire Discworld series, and study psychology and Engineering between 9-5. Then spend the rest of my time relaxing.
Oh, and a maid to clean after me.

I don't really want much, to be honset.

 

[Risingblade]

One word: Batman.
I'd be Batmaning, all day long.

Don't you mean all night long?

 

[Uhura]

And it hasn't sold, despite everyone who has read it really enjoying it. So my work on the sequel has become less and less a priority and more and more a chore.

Have you promoted your first book? I noticed it doesn't have any reviews on amazon (US), so I suggest you ask your sister and friends to review/rate it (Beffudled Sheep has read it? Maybe he'll rate it too?). The current prize of the book is great for impulse buys (heck, I just bought it) and it just needs a few good reviews/ratings to encourage people to take a chance on it. I'd also suggest you create an author profile on Goodreads and try to promote your novel there. Goodreads has tons of active groups and users and I think it would be a good place to reach new readers.

 

[Feedmeketamine]

Probably get a sweet apartment in the city, fill it with rich mahogany and a well stocked drinks cabinet and then buy a sweet motorbike and find a country with no speed limits.

Actually, the apartment should probably be in the country with no speed limits, unless i could also afford a private jet.

Spend the rest on oily hash and mescaline

 

[DSK-]

Besides the usual stuff of buying a place for my family and I to live, etc, etc, I'd probably re-do all my GCSE's and do a few more extra. Then probably do other courses.

 

[Miyenne]

Have you promoted your first book? I noticed it doesn't have any reviews on amazon (US), so I suggest you ask your sister and friends to review/rate it (Beffudled Sheep has read it? Maybe he'll rate it too?). The current prize of the book is great for impulse buys (heck, I just bought it) and it just needs a few good reviews/ratings to encourage people to take a chance on it. I'd also suggest you create an author profile on Goodreads and try to promote your novel there. Goodreads has tons of active groups and users and I think it would be a good place to reach new readers.

I did a bit in the beginning, and I asked friends and family (even though that's not technically allowed) to review the book for me. No one has, except @Carlsberg export, but his review is on the UK site.

I will check out Goodreads, though, thank you. And thank you for picking up the book!

Captcha: get over it ... Uh. No, I'm not ready to give up on my dream quiet yet, so bugger off scary sentient machine.

 

[Lightknight]

Assuming we're not talking about crazy world changing stuff that infinite money is concerned with and really just stuff you'd do if bills and the cost of doing things weren't a concern.

For work: I think I'd go into the advanced scientific research arena. I always felt bad about taking the easy way out with a business degree that insured I could get a job most anywhere. That was despite having taken several advanced mathematics and science courses as electives. Now I work in the computer sciences which can be as technically demanding but not really that much unless you're developing.

I've also been keen on charitable work. For example, I'm slotted to go to India to train some orphans on computer use this upcoming year. I absolutely love that and have built orphanages in the past. I'm also quite good with finances and would enjoy training low income families on how to manage what they have to get to a better place. Anything from budgeting and debt repayment to interview techniques and workplace etiquette.

For Fun: I think I'd enjoy traveling more, taking up a few hobbies like software development and carpentry. I would also like to return to my ol' blacksmithing days where I used to forge tools and blades to pay for college.

It'd be nice to get a little bit of gaming in every day. Perhaps I could eventually catch up on my insane game backlog.

I've been planning on retiring in a 3rd world country. This may not be far from my reality at all.

 

[Mzuark]

I'd buy a few of my favorite human beings.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I'd fund science. Like all of it.

I'd fund solar energy, nanotech, robotics, cars that drive themselves and run on unicorn farts, Sea Lab, cyborg prostheses, atmospheric carbon scrubbers, that thing from FO3 that cleans radioactive water, cold fusion, FTL drives, super crops, and pretty much every non-military thing that would be useful. Or just create the Matrix so that none of the other stuff will matter because reality is then your plaything.

Why lament that you will never get to see the universe, or even much of this planet when you can jack in, and see everything and anything over the course of a greatly extended lifespan via your slowly decaying husk being augmented with various chemicals etc.?

How do you know that you aren't already living that way, in some crappier version that only gives you real freedom in dreams?

Or if all that is too much trouble, I'd just make Amazon very very happy and my mail carrier very very busy.

 

[CakeBago]

If money is no object, I would use it to construct a large shelter as well as needed supplies like food, water, medicine, etc. for animals that are abused/maltreated and care for them with the help of people who share the same view and interest with me.

Another thing is to spend time learning more on something that I love - I have a passion in cooking because my family has a line of chefs and cooks. I would master the cooking techniques first before building a restaurant beside my place.

 

[deathzero021]

if i had a lot of money, i would open up a game dev studio and hire a handful of artists and musicians, maybe even a writer. I already program my own little projects but i'm no artist, and the art is holding me back from ever releasing anything decent. So right now, i'm stuck with trying to persuade artists to work with me for... free. Yeah it's not going so well -_-

So i'm stuck with a crappy minimum wage job until i can hit some sort of success with game development. i'm also in college part time so things are pretty difficult for me financially. i have very little free time.

Even if i had just enough money to get by with rent for a few years, i would quit my job and dedicate 100% of my time to working on a game, if by the end of that time i couldn't manage to produce something worthy of selling, than i would know i'm not cut out for the job, but right now, i feel like the world is holding me back from doing what i really want to do. I can't help but feel that if i had been born into a better/wealthy family that i'd already be where i want to be.

So i know what the OP is going through, not exactly but quite similar.

What exactly do you mean by art? Are you talking 3D assets or just conceptual sketches or anything hand drawn?

Both. I can't draw and I certainly can't create 3D models. I do some okay-ish pixel art for tilesets in the 2D projects i've worked on, i can't animate at all though.