What Would You Do If Money Were No Object

[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.

 

[Arcanite Ripper]

Sort of an ambiguous question. If money wasn't an object, the world would be terrifying. If money wasn't an object for me, I would send people to work in diamond mines if they weren't impressed with my Minecraft.

But what would I do, if I could? Likely exactly what I would be doing now, replacing travel time with series of sexy women.

 

[BitterLemon]

I would buy a modest house, with just enough space for my stuff and a nice room to invite friends over. I would buy a lot of books about history and sociology and try to expand my knowledge on humanities as much possible. I'm a self taught artist, but I've only worked with digital or black ink... so I would spend time learning traditional painting. I would travel around Brazil, I know so little of my own country. Then I would travel around South America, to see how other latin third world countries are doing. Then travel around all Europe, to know the old world. Then go to Asia to see how different it is from here... and say hi to Australia, because all brazilians who go there say wonderful things about it's people.

After getting so much knowledge and experiences, I would start making indie games about things that I consider more relevant.

Now, back to reality...

I'm burnt out. Dead tired, mentally exhausted, and I don't enjoy my job. At all. On paper, it's agreat job.

...

Every day I come to work, sit down at my desk, and do maybe an hour or two of work a day, the rest is spent looking at the same few websites over and over. I don't care about my job, I don't take pride in it, and people are beginning to notice that I just don't care anymore. I'm ashamed, and every day I try to psyche myself up and get some work done, but I can't. It's all so pointless and I'm getting seriously depressed.

That describes my current situation with exact words. The difference is that I already work with what I dreamed about. I'm a well paid game artist (well paid for an a artist, at least). But the thing about transforming your hobby in profession is true... I'm so fed up that I don't even draw at home for myself anymore and I'm becoming a cynic with games. Guess I'm suffering a 27 old crisis: lived enough to fully realize that things don't work so beautifully in real life, but not experienced enough to deal with this disappointment. All the compromises because of clients, market, surreal deadlines. The unpaid work hours. All kinds of racist, sexist, homophobic and insane things you hear when people are having ideias of what "sells". At the beggining, I though that it was okay, real life is like that. After 4 years, I'm really questioning if this is what I want.

I got to a point that I realized that the only way I gonna be happy working with games is doing stuff of my own, but then there's the money problem. So I feel stuck, but at least I'm able to save lots of money and maybe I'll be able to live a while without working... and maybe try to make at least one game on my own and see what happens.

 

[Frezzato]

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.

I'm sending you a PM with a contact email. If you ever need any conceptual work done, send me a message. Also, animating is not the same as drawing. In fact, there's very little artistic skill to animation.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Travel around the world moving from one five star all inclusive resort to another while also trying out the best ski resorts in the world.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I would always be rapping, playing guitar, or getting fucked up probably. Day to day anyway. I would also travel occasionally.

Other than that, never again would I have any cigarettes but Newports.

 

[Jynthor]

That comic was useless for me. There is nothing I see myself doing, I sit on my ass playing games all day.
If money weren't an issue I'd probably do my best spending as much as I could.
I'd start by buying/starting construction of a big ass castle, with all modern pleasures included of course. I'm dramatic like that. Buy everything I could gaming related and just relax for the rest of my life.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

What? How could you be unhappy? I... What?

Maybe I'm not seeing the full picture here but perhaps you should be looking at other people's lives instead of your own? Perhaps it will give you a sense of perspective.

Let me just tell you about the jobs I had. Right now, I work at Shari's as a ****ing minimum wage Dishwasher. There's only one Dishwasher at any time in the Restaurant though and we have 7 jobs that we all need to do when working. It's very nasty and stressful. ESPECIALLY on the weekends.

Before that, I was a production worker at some pepper and onion factory. I had to stand there for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, picking peppers in full gear. Plus the odor of onions mixed in with strong chemicals made a combination that irritated your eyes. And you know why I was and am working these crap jobs? Because there's nothing else. Nothing better I could get in this stupid farming community where I live and moving would be highly ill advised for me.

And now you make this topic and talk about how terrible your job is and I'm just like... I'm trying to sympathize but I'm failing hard. You only have to work for an hour and then you can goof off the rest of the day. How is that a problem?! If you're bored, spice it up. Work on improving yourself in the hours where you're not actually working. Bring some music, work on writing.

If you think your job's bad, look around you and you'll find that you've got something that a lot of people would kill for, me included.

 

[Flight]

If money were no object, I'd quit my job and never work in customer service again. Seriously. Not to be melodramatic, but it's toxic and soul-killing, and all I've really learned from it is that I completely hate people.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

What? How could you be unhappy? I... What?

Maybe I'm not seeing the full picture here but perhaps you should be looking at other people's lives instead of your own? Perhaps it will give you a sense of perspective.

Let me just tell you about the jobs I had. Right now, I work at Shari's as a ****ing minimum wage Dishwasher. There's only one Dishwasher at any time in the Restaurant though and we have 7 jobs that we all need to do when working. It's very nasty and stressful. ESPECIALLY on the weekends.

Before that, I was a production worker at some pepper and onion factory. I had to stand there for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, picking peppers in full gear. Plus the odor of onions mixed in with strong chemicals made a combination that irritated your eyes. And you know why I was and am working these crap jobs? Because there's nothing else. Nothing better I could get in this stupid farming community where I live and moving would be highly ill advised for me.

And now you make this topic and talk about how terrible your job is and I'm just like... I'm trying to sympathize but I'm failing hard. You only have to work for an hour and then you can goof off the rest of the day. How is that a problem?! If you're bored, spice it up. Work on improving yourself in the hours where you're not actually working. Bring some music, work on writing.

If you think your job's bad, look around you and you'll find that you've got something that a lot of people would kill for, me included.

I'd kill for a chance at military/firefighting/law enforcement/EMS or some combo thereof, but the military door has almost certainly been closed. I tried enlisting, but have a condition that is an automatic disqualifier, and I have a long uphill battle to try and get into the others, but I will not be beaten yet!

If money were no object, I'd quit my job and never work in customer service again. Seriously. Not to be melodramatic, but it's toxic and soul-killing, and all I've really learned from it is that I completely hate people.

Funny, I have never worked in customer service, retail, or anything like that. My one year at the local community college made me hate people.