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

[mekare]

this year I'm finding it quite hard to keep up with work and fandom, and that's galling

I FEEL YOUR PAIN

walls and a door are invaluable at the workplace

Agreed. I worked a job for the last one and a half years where we were all together in a big room and you had no privacy whatsoever at your workplace. Very seldom I worked at the one station where you had your own little room. It was so relaxing! I've always known I am a person who needs their place to retreat and work in peace. This job just brought that home to me very clearly.

Mmh personal secretary, yes that would be lovely. I think I'd use some of the money to travel to far away places which I can't afford (NZ, Japan, South-east Asia). But yep retirement fund sounds sensible.

[mithen]

Agreed. I worked a job for the last one and a half years where we were all together in a big room and you had no privacy whatsoever at your workplace. Very seldom I worked at the one station where you had your own little room. It was so relaxing!

Having the ability to snag some time and space for myself is really important! And travel, yessss. My problem is I'm not really certain how our retirement plan here works--the details are just too hard to figure out, I know it's supposed to be enough to live on eventually, but--! So putting money aside is very important...