Comments | flamingsword: If I won the lottery

flamingsword

If I won the lottery

Jul 22, 2010 03:45

Someone got me thinking. What WOULD I do if I won the lottery? Would I lose myself because I had no financial goals? What would change?

I wouldn't stop working - I LIKE my job. I like my co-workers, and my clients, and fixing things. If I needed to make more money than I do right now, I would go work at the Four Seasons. And I could, but I'd have ( Read more... )

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dreamsoffire July 22 2010, 13:29:13 UTC

"I would hire a rotating set of underemployed friends to be part-time personal assistants to the artists I know who can't keep track of their bills, where the charcoal pencils got to, or where their beige taffeta is. I know a lot of people who are good artists, but don't get much done because their skill set applies only haphazardly to the real world. Paired with people who could handle organization and one extra person with marketing skills, they could have a tiny corporate entity with everything they need to keep making my world shinier without torturing themselves trying to handle the external world that they dislike."

I didn't realize how badly I needed a personal assistant until you posted that, lol. Although I suppose that's what Elaine does. She keeps track of and organizes my things, and keeps me from losing important stuff like school papers or my ID. Which, unfortunately, happened fairly often before I had her in my life. It's pretty awesome.

flamingsword July 22 2010, 17:05:35 UTC

See? I am the font of all wisdom. Totally. ;D

But apparently my brain is not done talking about this, because I have more thoughts on the nature of competing and where envy comes from to post up later. What would you do, since you're posting again?

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flamingsword July 23 2010, 17:19:28 UTC

You might quit your job, but you would probably still work. You'd wind up, hrm. Probably getting a house near the Heard Museum and being a docent/tour guide and volunteering at schools speaking to kids about sustainability and environmental stewardship. If you played WoW all day, you'd get neck problems and carpal tunnel. Bad deal.

The Xenoix would totally let you be his sugar momma, and would do pretty much exactly what he does now, only replace work for Wolfram and Hart with going to ten thousand hours of school and making weird computer art and websites.

wizardpen13 July 22 2010, 15:22:28 UTC

As usual, I find your gifting-ness to be quite insane. ;P Lol. I'm not sure how wise it is to take on the responsibilities of other people's debts.... I understand the sweetness of the sentiment, though. ^.^

It does sound fun to live in a church, and the fact that you'd be the rich person using a church as a staging point for artistic endeavors sounds very Renaissance-like to me. Very cool!

Hrrm... It would be even more interesting, if you still used the space for spiritual functions, too. I can think of a lot of people in marginalized faiths that would like a space like that.

Should this ever did happen, if you simply rented out some rooms you'd have a much more sustainable venture. I'm sure you could even lease them for less than most apartments, and still turn out on top.....

flamingsword July 22 2010, 17:16:50 UTC

It's not sweetness. No, seriously. I believe in revolving community credit, and I believe that my friends could do amazing things if our network were a little differently structured. Amazing things were done for me through the application of data, and amazing things could be done for other people through data, time, and money. That's just balance and enjoying progress.

The thing about it being a church is less religious than it is just about the space already having most of what you'd need for a multi-family single unit dwelling. Most churches have kitchens and bathrooms, so remodelling wouldn't be that huge a deal. Or I could buy an entire building of condos, and rent them at half market value to our whole group. It would keep people responsible, but not too hassled.

wizardpen13 August 25 2010, 17:25:27 UTC

Appreciation for what has been done for you and a desire to spread that on is sweetness, is it not?

But, even if it wasn't intended, that would STILL be a neet-o bonus of owning a church. You know people you know would enjoy that perk. ;)

*hint, hint, wink, hint*

^.^

elucreh July 22 2010, 15:52:40 UTC

I like a lot of your ideas!

flamingsword July 22 2010, 17:12:28 UTC

YAY! What would you do?

I want to find out how other people would react. How do I make this a meme without endorsing the idea of playing the lottery, which I think is actually a stupid idea?

elucreh July 22 2010, 17:24:45 UTC

Pay off my parents' house and establish a trust for my siblings' education, first. Buy a small apartment somewhere in a semi-decent neighborhood of NYC and get my Master's in folklore at one of the schools there; budget for a few storytelling workshops/conventions and a few theatre shows every year. I would like a computer with a good enough processor to vid, but I'm actually good with very few expensive material possessions. I miss being able to give really good presents, though; I would definitely budget for birthdays and for saw-it-and-thought-of-you gifts ( ... )

flamingsword July 23 2010, 17:41:13 UTC

You are the schmoopiest schmoo!

rens_sanctuary July 23 2010, 02:56:21 UTC

So I completed this at my LJ in list form. A lot of my things to have comes from frugalness and budgeting from Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey a frugal-minded man after my own heart. :)

Can i come join your church space and live like Alice and Ray from Alice's Restaurant?

PS: I FINISHED your Xmas gift art, it just needs framed! YAY! 99.1% you will love. Or, it will fail, but I STILL believe it to be AWESOME! So it is not a fail. Plus another gift surprise thing Jack's doing. Creativity!

PSS: I had Jack burn the first ever incense in my soap stone incense holder today! The man knows me and gets me awesome stuff.

flamingsword July 23 2010, 17:46:40 UTC

Yes, you may come live in the House of Who or whatever we wind up naming it. Despite my never having seen Alice's Restaurant, I endorse any and all ideas of you coming down to live in the crazy pack bonding and tribal community lifestyle.

If you loved making it, I will love owning it. That's just a given.

rens_sanctuary July 23 2010, 17:55:11 UTC

Alice's Restaurant is a sort of pointless movie but it does involve a TON of hippies living commune-styleish in an old church. You basically can get the gist from listening to the song of the same name.

YAY! The art IS--well, if I use descriptive words, you'll be able to get an idea about it...but it was made especially for YOU! So there is that. :D