Writer's Block: Jackpot

[avocado_love]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Of course that would depend on how much I won, but let's assume it was an obscene amount, like 400 million or something.

I would first quit my damn job. I wouldn't do it spectacularly... I would just go quietly in, pack up my things, and leave before the news hits (because that place is like high school. Everyone is in everyone else's business, and roamers crowd around the cubes like flys). Then I would never think of that place again.

I would pay off my sister's crazy student loans. Talk about predatory lending... she finished a one year course and will be paying for it until she's 40.

Then I would give each of my family members, say, 50K and tell them to do whatever they want with it. Buy shit. Invest it. It's theirs.

As for myself, I would probably upgrade my place. Nothing fancy... just buy or rent a house with some acreage with a barn, and pursue a on again, off again dream of breeding show-quality English mastiffs. And I would have chickens and some goats to keep the acreage tended. I would work part time, probably either in a small water system or at the local SPCA to keep myself out of the house.

And I would write. A lot. And for fun. And it would be great.

I would put the rest of the money into investments. I would totally hire a bunch of financial geniuses and tell them that the goal would be to double the investment in 10 years.And then I would do it again.

So I guess I would live simply, but nicely, and I would make sure the money isn't frittered away in a few years or whatever.

Man, I gotta buy myself a lottery ticket today.

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'd love to win the lottery, but I can never bring myself to buy a ticket (stupid person tax...).

If I somehow won anyway, I'd do much the same as you. First off: QUIT! QUIT! QUIT! Nothing flashy, and while I hate my job I still might stay a week or two if they asked (we're a small group, one person being gone hurts), but either way I'd never work again.

I'd happily give money to my family! After that, just buy a small place to live and some animals, and settle in for "happily ever after". :D

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I like your investment goals!

[heureviolet.livejournal.com]

Aww - you are really sensible! I might do the same with a smaller amount of money, but if I won like, 400 million or something, I'd definitely try to do at least one really extreme thing with it, like maybe buy out a few big companies and mess around with the economy some more... :p