How i would like to spend my life

[darkangel218]

If I won the lottery

Alone, with lots of cats. And maybe a dog or two.
Listening to music and drinking beer

I know its just a fantasy, but people can dream

[Xyzse]

1. If I won the lottery

I want to keep a job and keep working.
Still, I'd love to change my job in to the Physical Fitness department, so they pay me to work out.

[darkangel218]

2. Im so tired and exauted of working. i would pass

More often than not I get looked down to and disrespected, even though I endanger my life on daily basis.

If I win the lottery, ill be freaking free!! :p how awesome would that be

[Xyzse]

3. I can understand

To me, I feel like I need to work or else feel like crap.

So, I would love to change my job towards physical fitness. Even if it is as a personal trainer. I just don't want to do it now because it doesn't pay as much and I don't have the time to switch.

Winning the lottery allows that freedom. To get paid for becoming fit would be awesome!

I mean, I love Jack LaLanne. Doesn't need to work, just works, and his work is his work out.
It is always great to feel like I have some sort of responsibility towards others.

[darkangel218]

6. I would help others by donating money

But sure as hell.I would quit work .

[Xyzse]

8. Hehehehe

I see. No career change or anything?
I guess, it is just because I'd get bored and need some sort of thing to keep me going.

[darkangel218]

10. Yes but im tired and ovdrworked. it would be nice to take a break

[Xyzse]

12. Same here...

Which is why I'd love a change one day.

I want to be:

1 - A Physical Trainer - That barely has to work
2 - A Massage Therapist - That barely has to work
3 - A Park Ranger! - That barely has to work and has the internet

I think that would be so awesome. I'd bring my ukulele and jam!

[loli phabay]

19. i love working, even though i could live without doing anything, my wife on the other hand

Was joyous when we married and didnt have to work anymore, she likes the doing her own thing and vacations when she wants etc. Me i need the structure and achieving stuff, i even work my ass off on my days off. My ideal would be to buy an island and become a tyrant so i could run the the whole kingdom kinda like a realistic age of empires.

[Xyzse]

24. Exactly!

I need the structure. I'd be so lost without a job.

[trof]

36. You probably wouldn't. I quit working for pay 14 years ago.

Doesn't seem like that long.
6 months after I retired I was involved in so many things that I wanted to do, that I wondered how I'd had time to work before.
You find causes you care about.
Places where you can volunteer that really make you feel good about what you're doing.
More than any paycheck ever did.

[Xyzse]

37. Yeah, I can agree

I used to volunteer on weekends to the German Shepherd rescue till my saturday mornings got taken away by work.

Which is what I mean. I'd love to shift to something like that, but I need to be working.

[HappyMe]

4. I was just flipping through a magazine

and saw a 14 acre estate for sale - $1.4m. On a hilltop, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, stone fireplace, chef's kitchen.

I wouldn't have any pets though. I would open my own needlework shop. Do a bunch of traveling.

[darkangel218]

5. Without pets your life would be empty. you could perheps feed the strays you encounter?

[HappyMe]

7. I don't like cats.

If I'm traveling, it's not fair to the dog. I would feel bad about having someone else care for him.

My life wouldn't be empty. I have my husband.


edit to add - The local food pantry would get a huge chunk of money put into trust for them.

[darkangel218]

9. My mom is like that..she hated cats :(

She had my uncle come over and pick up the momma kitty in a bag and took her to the forest near by .

[In_The_Wind]

11. I like my life but I really do want a better view. Like this one:

[BainsBane]

18. Now that looks nice!

[In_The_Wind]

22. I can still dream about it.

[loli phabay]

20. views are important, this year for my wifes birthday i bought her the property in front of ours

As the owner had had enough of renting it out and the issues with tenants, gave her the keys and set up the contractor who is going to take the house down. She has always hated the house as for some reason she thought it blighted the view, i dont even notice it but it drove her nuts.

[In_The_Wind]

23. She is a lucky woman.

I'm sure the creation she has in mind will be truly an improvement.

[OriginalGeek]

13. I'm with ya on the beer and music

But I'd travel the world and go to all the shows that don't come to me.

I'd have a metric ton of obscure band shirts.

[darkangel218]

25. Been there , done that.

I've been to so many shows, its silly. I even dated Tom from Celtic Frost :p

...

I'm old now , I just want a quiet , happy life. Inside my head, away from drama.

[OriginalGeek]

27. lol, I'm old too but

there's bands I haven't seen live yet. Some never tour out of Europe and I wanna see as many as I can fit in before dirt nap.

One concession to age is I stay farther away from the pit now. lol

Tom G. Warrior's track on Dave Grohl's Probot record is one of my favorites on that album.

[darkangel218]

28. Let me see if i can send you a pic of me and Tom.

He is trully a remarkable person. Not just mussicaly but spiritually too. Him and H R Giger. Wow .. speaking about art .

[OriginalGeek]

29. I would love for you to!

I like Giger too - awesome stuff - would love to go to one of his bars in Switzerland.

[darkangel218]

30. Youre not gonna be able to. hes too private and excusive.

[OriginalGeek]

31. not even for Lottery money!?!

lol...Since I'm dreaming anyway...

[darkangel218]

32. nope . but he is genius.

I love H R Gigger and respect him with all my heart. He is amazing.

[freshwest]

14. I'd put in trust for some disabled people, spend a summer at a health spa and travel the world, then

I'd start an organic farm and give people shares in it to have it when I pass on. With dibs for the first group to enjoy it too.

[darkangel218]

26. That sounds awesome!

If I had lots if money I would fight Monsanto to the end. Fuking assholes!!! :'(

[Demo_Chris]

15. I would build a SAFE community for abused women and children

My fantasy and dream is a walled community (something like townhomes or apartments) where women could escape from abusive or dangerous situations. No rent, no bills, no need to pay for anything. Armed guards at the gates and absolutely no men allowed inside other than staff. Someplace they could go where all they would need to do is get out of the house and to a phone. Need clothes for the kids? No problem! Need groceries? No problem! No money in the checking account and you don't dare go to work? No problem! It's all paid for, for as long as it's necessary. Just get to a phone, someone will pick you up, and you will be somewhere SAFE within minutes.

In my dream, I see it as a place that would become an actual community, and I could envision the women surivors there helping each other and the community as a whole -- even after they have moved out and on with their lives.

That's what I would do.

[Locut0s]

16. Actually you don't have to win the lottery to live that way ;)

You do if you want to live nicely that way. But there are lots of people barely scraping by who's lives could basically be described as just that.

[BainsBane]

17. I'd buy a house

and a cabin near Grand Marais, MN. Then I'd set up a non-profit to provide housing for people with mental illness.

[darkangel218]

33. Thats very kind of you BB.

[DFW]

21. I won the lottery at age 22

Not all wealth is measured by the size of one's bank balance:
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[darkangel218]

34. Can i say

lucky bastard?

[DFW]

35. You certainly can. You'd be right, too

I got lucky in three things:

1. She is nearsighted
2. She had never met an American before, and I had taken her language in college, so she found me mildly exotic
3. Her boyfriend at the time was an insecure over-jealous jerk who didn't give her space to breathe. I did.

Oh, yeah, and one other thing: she takes care of herself. She was 29 in that pic. She's 60 in this one (less than a year ago):
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It's been a nice 39 (almost) years. Before I met her, I was fairly well convinced that I was second class goods. She taught me that what matters is what she thought, not what all the girls and women I met before her thought.