Stay at day job (work or school) if suddenly filthy rich from Bitcoin?

jonald_fyookball

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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on June 02, 2014, 06:55:57 PM

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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on June 02, 2014, 06:31:41 PM

Give me a small beach house and a chair. I am sure I can find things to do in the extremely unlikely event of boredom.

i agree.

i think i've been bored like 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. always something to do.

I like to think that it is my intelligence that keeps me from ever getting bored but it is more likely some sort of undiagnosed mental disorder. Shocked

i think its the internet.

always something to watch, something to learn, something to create

Ron~Popeil

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on June 02, 2014, 06:51:15 PM

Quote from: Ron~Popeil on June 02, 2014, 06:31:41 PM

Give me a small beach house and a chair. I am sure I can find things to do in the extremely unlikely event of boredom.

i agree.

i think i've been bored like 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. always something to do.

I like to think that it is my intelligence that keeps me from ever getting bored but it is more likely some sort of undiagnosed mental disorder. Shocked

jonald_fyookball

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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on June 02, 2014, 06:31:41 PM

Give me a small beach house and a chair. I am sure I can find things to do in the extremely unlikely event of boredom.

i agree.

i think i've been bored like 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. always something to do.

DuckDuckMoose

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Just finish my college degree and continue on living as usual, perhaps just a bit more comfortably.

LavaWave

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I would continue working, at least at the beginning. Would probably do 8 hour days with no overtime so I could maintain my benefits. But knowing that I'm filthy rich, that wouldn't last to long! lol Grin

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Give me a small beach house and a chair. I am sure I can find things to do in the extremely unlikely event of boredom.

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Quote from: nickenburg on June 02, 2014, 02:51:57 PM

I mean for me working is only about getting money not something to enjoy.

u r doing it rong

odolvlobo

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A job has two other benefits: a social setting and a way to contribute to the community.

People that continue working even though they don't need the money do it for one or both of these reasons.

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I have this strong desire to write novels and ideally make a living off it. I know I can write well, making a living off it is harder though. So if I did end up becoming super rich with bitcoins, I might just quit my job and work on writing novels all the time. Yes, retiring would be boring if you're just doing nothing all the time. Get some hobbies and it wouldn't be. There's a guy who writes a blog about this exact topic. He saved up enough money by the time he became 30 that, since he and his family live frugally, he doesn't need to work any more. The guy's blog is extremely popular, gets about 5 million hits a month, so clearly this idea resonates with a lot of people, myself included, although it's too late for me to retire by 30.

adamselene

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I'd travel for a short while but I'd be back trying to come up with cool things to make.

nickenburg

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I dont even have a job so I would definitely not start working!
I have friends that say if I was a millionaire I wouldn't quit my job.
But I dont understand how people like there job so much, they wouldn't want to quit there job when they have enough to quit.
I mean for me working is only about getting money not something to enjoy.

hellscabane

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If I became "filthy rich" from Bitcoin, I'd definitely leave my job. But I would probably let it be a long transitional period while I figured out what the heck to do with the rest of my life.

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Can you add a "raise private army" option?

spazzdla

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I would become a bitcoin miner full time.. mainly for entertainment.. maybe buy a golf course.

I would work for me.

TaunSew

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Quote from: calaber24p on June 02, 2014, 10:28:42 AM

Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 31, 2014, 12:07:15 PM

If you get filthy rich, then there is no need to work full time earning close to the minimum wage. But by filthy rich, I mean net wealth over $10 million. Anything less than that, won't last long.

Ehh you could live off dividends on stocks with about 2m-3m pretty easily in most places with a pretty good lifestyle. I would imagine life would get very boring though.

The 8%-10% gain is still capital taxed and it's no guarantee. You can also lose that principle too

QuestionAuthority

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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.

Quit working and go to Thailand on a drunken whore banging fiesta to keep from getting bored. When that gets old then go to Amsterdam on a drunken whore banging fiesta. Then tour all the Eros centers in Germany. Then go to Aalborg, Denmark and pound a few of their women. Rio would be nice to relax awhile before tearing your way through a bunch of their wool. Then on to Cancun for some brown lips and tequila. What ever you do stay away from the UK because women there are matronly bossy pigs. lol

calaber24p

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If this is life , then I prefer death !

Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 31, 2014, 12:07:15 PM

If you get filthy rich, then there is no need to work full time earning close to the minimum wage. But by filthy rich, I mean net wealth over $10 million. Anything less than that, won't last long.

Ehh you could live off dividends on stocks with about 2m-3m pretty easily in most places with a pretty good lifestyle. I would imagine life would get very boring though.

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Quote from: Bizmark13 on June 02, 2014, 04:59:24 AM

Yesterday I saw someone crawling around with a cloth wiping a trash can.

And then there are people who risk their lives everyday like the Turkish miners.

Even if not all day jobs are as gross or dangerous, I don't understand why anyone would volunteer to be bossed around and told what to do just to make someone else richer if they knew it wasn't necessary.

Like that guy who won the lottery and was set for life but but went back to flipping burgers after a year because he was bored.

Or the people who work in cubicles.

But if stuff like that gives someone's life purpose and meaning and their lives would be unbearably bored without it then there's nothing wrong with that I guess.

But I think it would be better to find things that you would be interested in. Why not learn code and contribute to open source projects? Pick up a musical instrument? Learn a language? Write a book? Paint something you can be proud of and hang it in a gallery?

I disagree. I don't think people show up to work just for the "work", they crave the social interaction as well. This explains all the Lawyers, Doctors and Accountants who work past age 65 and presumably have more than enough money to retire (although some are broke as they live beyond their means).

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Yesterday I saw someone crawling around with a cloth wiping a trash can.

And then there are people who risk their lives everyday like the Turkish miners.

Even if not all day jobs are as gross or dangerous, I don't understand why anyone would volunteer to be bossed around and told what to do just to make someone else richer if they knew it wasn't necessary.

Like that guy who won the lottery and was set for life but but went back to flipping burgers after a year because he was bored.

Or the people who work in cubicles.

But if stuff like that gives someone's life purpose and meaning and their lives would be unbearably bored without it then there's nothing wrong with that I guess.

But I think it would be better to find things that you would be interested in. Why not learn code and contribute to open source projects? Pick up a musical instrument? Learn a language? Write a book? Paint something you can be proud of and hang it in a gallery?

peperapijames

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if i got rich from bitcoin or anything else i would keep my day job!!staying idle with no purpose can make someone like me go crazy!

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