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02/20/2003 12:08:18 PM · #1 |
After reading what people do for a living, I'm curious as to what you would do if money wasn't an object?
I think I would sponsor a children's sport team, like a high school baseball team, and help them get the the High School World Series... or something noble like that. Sometimes I wish I had a mentor like that when I was growing up.
That or I'd buy up some of those rundown abandoned buildings down from my street and tear them down... and put like a park there instead. Those places are such an eyesore and there aren't many parks near me.
What would you do?
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02/20/2003 12:29:12 PM · #2 |
I agree with the abandon property thing. This is what really makes me mad. We had a Wal-Mart here where I live. A perfectly good Wal-Mart. What did they do? Well, they built another Wal-Mart super store about 2 miles down the road and now the original Wal-Mart building sits abandoned in the middle of a great big shopping center. I could have seen them doing this if the original Wal-Mart store was old or something but that building was probably only 5-10 years old when they moved out of it. I'm sure they got a new tax break or something for moving 2 miles down the road where the Circuit City and all of that went up too.
Anyway... I think I would volunteer and be something like a little league coach or something. That sounds really fun. That would defiantly give you plenty of photo opportunities. :-) Oh, yea. I would tear down that &%^$%#$ Wal-Mart building and put a part there just like you are going to do bamaster. :-)
During my off time I think I would travel and see a lot of the world. I would probably move to NYC. I love NYC. Glad it's only 4.5 hours from me so I can visit frequently.
I would also make sure my dad could retire and he and my mother would never need to worry about money. I really think it is unfair that people have to work up till almost 70 anymore before they can retire. Unless they are in a great job and get rich and can retire early.
Well... there are my thoughts.
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02/20/2003 12:36:54 PM · #3 |
great question, tony!
i would help all of my loved ones...it wouldn't be any fun being rich all by myself! also, i have always wanted to help people who are struggling to help themselves. ya know...the kid who really wants to go to school but can't afford it; the parents who do without so their children can have the basics of life; the people who struggle with everyday issues, then have something totally unexpected thrown at them. i know a certain amount of turmoil in our lives make us strong in character, but after a certain point, it just makes you tired. those are the people i would love to help.
of course, somewhere in all this giving, i would give myself a new digital camera, one of those cool printers that makes poster sized prints and a 1969 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda (my dream car). ;-)
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02/20/2003 12:53:01 PM · #4 |
I would start a motor racing team. Definitely not F1, but a few of the smaller categories like Formula 3, Formula Renault & Formula Ford where I could help nurture some young talent. Oh, and something in one of the hatchback categories (Clio racing rocks) so that I could have a drive myself!
I would also help out some urban musicians - the best music often comes out of the poverty stricken inner city areas. When I lived in a Council high rise my next door neighbour was the percussionist in Cornershop.
Beyond that (and sorting out loved ones, which goes without saying) I would buy a helluva lot of tech gear and spend the time I currently waste at work going out, taking photos and enjoying myself. |
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02/20/2003 12:53:34 PM · #5 |
I would move to Canada and buy a house somewhere nowhere.
Hike everyday (or for weeks), take photo's with some high quality easy to carry stuff and write books/ a very big site.
In the winter I'd go to Southern Europe to clubrace motorcycles and to Africa to do Safari's. I'd travel all over the world.
And I would buy some rainforest/wetlands/northern forest for preservation.
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02/20/2003 01:01:31 PM · #6 |
I've always imagined I'd set up a non-profit organisation to help homeless people and indigenous communities somehow. What's the point of having a lot of money to yourself? You're just increasing the inequality in society and lowering everyone's living standards, including your own, since your money and assets have to be protected from the crime that results from poverty.
If I had so much money that it was possible to make a dent in inequality on a global scale, I would go the whole NGO route and do things like the Grameen Bank scheme. |
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02/20/2003 01:11:44 PM · #7 |
I would move to some tropical location and run a scuba diving shop - have charters and the like - just for fun. Ah, to wake up in the morning and splash onto a reef - that's the life!!
On the more humanitarian level... there is a "furniture bank" that I have done volunteer work with. Works in the same way as a "food bank" except they give furniture (beds, couches, chairs, etc.) to those in need. I would set them up with a credit line at Sears or some like company so that they could provide good new furniture to those who don't have beds to sleep on.
Oh, and I would spoil my friends and family rotten!! |
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02/20/2003 01:18:01 PM · #8 |
Why do you guys worry about money anyway?
I found it to be true, that if you do what you love, money is never a problem.
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02/20/2003 01:56:33 PM · #9 |
well, all the money in the world wouldn't be enough for me. the only thing i would want is an unlimited amount of time. i've been finding out that there just isn't enough time in a day, week, year, or lifetime to accomplish everything we want to.
but, if the topic of money wasn't an issue, i would call my boss over to my computer, delete my harddrive, quit and walk out. then i would make sure my family and my wifes famile do everything they ever wanted to do and spend as much time together as possible. probably buy land and move our entire immediate families together (like a MJ neverland) and give something back to people.
i would travel, hike and photograph everywhere/everything. and i would try to do something that lived on forever and people were always reminded of me. |
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02/20/2003 03:38:41 PM · #10 |
| I would buy some new lens for my camera and tour the world taking photo's. I would love to go to Easter Island and photograph there. Oh I will make it there one day, oh yes. I'm totally facinated by that place. |
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02/20/2003 03:47:52 PM · #11 |
IF you have money chek the Adriatic coast, particllary Croatia and Montenegro:
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02/20/2003 03:53:12 PM · #12 |
| Those photos are taken from public portfolio of Stefan Kordic://www2.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=17252 |
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02/20/2003 04:22:09 PM · #13 |
Probably what I do now, only more extravagantly! :)
Mark |
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02/20/2003 04:39:24 PM · #14 |
If I had no money issues I'd have a few properties, and use all of them to comfortably and humanely house animals that people tire of, and dispose of. Especially exotic animals that have special needs. I love being around animals. I really love it. I'd like to bring them to, or have the public come to observe and be educated about the animals and our environment. Having a nature camp on each premise would be great, perhaps a bed and breakfast too, which I've already done.
I'd have vast gardens, bees, butterflies, and donate lots of food to soup kitchens and no kill Humane shelters.
I'd like to teach people self-suffiency, and renewable resources.
No matter how rich I became, I would continue to live simply. Camping, canoeing, wildlife photography, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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02/21/2003 02:28:53 AM · #15 |
what a great bunch of people here! very cool. :-)
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02/21/2003 08:25:05 AM · #16 |
I don't worry much about money. It seems to do just fine without me.
-Terry
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02/21/2003 11:51:38 AM · #17 |
My nephew recently sent a questionnaire around which included the question: If you had a lot of money, what would you do?
My answer:
(1) set up a huge foundation to support environmental projects, especially for saving wildlife habitats
(2) build a large kennel which includes a veterinary hospital on a huge parcel of land (a no-kill kennel for injured and unwanted pets and wild animals).... my home would be on the top floor
(3) after getting everything under control, explore Europe with the latest in digital photography gear
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02/21/2003 12:06:40 PM · #18 |
I know I said I'd sponsor a baseball team.... oh, who am I foolin? I'd sponsor the Hawawiian Tropic Bikini Team and self appoint me as their "Lotion Applicator Engineer".
:P
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02/21/2003 12:25:33 PM · #19 |
OK, now THAT sounds like the Barmaster we've grown to know and er, um, know. . . .
I thought we had a pod person there for a little while, was wondering who you were and what you'd done with Bar. . .
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02/21/2003 01:44:53 PM · #20 |
I'd drink alot more and I would golf everyday.
Oh yeah, and take a few more pictures too.
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02/21/2003 05:32:13 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by bamaster:
I know I said I'd sponsor a baseball team.... oh, who am I foolin? I'd sponsor the Hawawiian Tropic Bikini Team and self appoint me as their "Lotion Applicator Engineer".
:P |
gets in line to sign up for the Hawaiian Tropic Bikini Team.
:P
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