Talking Meme: I won the lottery! Whoo!
Jan. 12th, 2015 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithennorthernwalker asked: You've just won the lottery! It's a multi-million dollar win. What are the first three things you'd buy? Would you quit your job/move/make other drastic life changes? Ooooh, this is actually a very hard question about my job. See, I love my job, I really do--every semester brings new and interesting challenges and frustrations, and it never gets boring. However, in recent years the workload has been slowly accumulating until this year I'm finding it quite hard to keep up with work and fandom, and that's galling. I could potentially drop to a different contract with fewer committee responsibilities, but...then I'd lose my office, and I do love to have an office (with walls and a door! All those years ago I thought Les Nesman of WKRP in Cincinnati was an oddball, but now I realize walls and a door are invaluable at the workplace...my God, I have become Les Nesman).
That said, my choices for what I would purchase with my lottery winnings are clear:
1. College educations for my nieces
2. A personal secretary, bilingual in Japanese and English, to do my paperwork and keep track of my deadlines. *luxurious sigh*
The rest would probably go into a retirement fund, to be honest! I am both boring and paranoid (oh no, I am Les Nesman...)
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Date: 2015-01-12 01:26 pm (UTC)tbh I'd probably shove 2/3 into the bank to earn interest and to stop me from being tempted to spend all of it. Then the remaining 1/3 I'd split between necessities and material things that make me happy. Depending on how big the prize amount is, maybe I'd be less stressed about having a high-paying job/be more comfortable with pursuing lower-paying but leaves-me-with-more-free-time jobs.
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Date: 2015-01-18 12:34 pm (UTC)(Money can't buy happiness, but it surely can help get rid of obstacles to happiness!)