Talking Meme: I won the lottery! Whoo!

[mithen]

northernwalker 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...)

Comments

[me_ya_ri]

XD My husband and I actually have plans of what we'd do if we came into a huge sum of money, not that we play the lottery at all. 10% would be play with money, doing whatever we wanted. The rest would be invested. If it came from my writing (someday...! *whistful sigh*) then 10% to play with, 50% straight back into the business and 40% investments.

But yeah, the thought of someone to do the boring bits sounds so darn good. Formatting and uploading stories, yeah, that'd be awesome! :D

[mithen]

Wouldn't someone to just...keep track of the dull parts be heavenly? What I wouldn't give for a person to just shoot me a message saying "You have two meetings today--I already filed the paperwork for them, and I emailed those two universities you needed to contact." *dreamy sigh*