Reply to: Why you are all miserable bastards...

[unixman]

Didn't some ancient Greek bloke say that happiness required self determination (freedom), friends and living in a nice place?

[Soho]

Disagree...

[BR14]

I'll never get bored of music, I spend most of my spare time playing guitar or producing on the DAW. I've got stuff published on Spotify/iTunes - not many listens/downloads yet but I haven't started marketing it yet.

go for it old son! music's the true international language

[Jog On]

It's a great idea...

maybe 3 years of doing it before you are bored???

I'll never get bored of music, I spend most of my spare time playing guitar or producing on the DAW. I've got stuff published on Spotify/iTunes - not many listens/downloads yet but I haven't started marketing it yet.

[original PM]

I want a recording studio, record label and time to learn and practice music and hire session musicians, set up gigs/events/festivals etc.

No problems filling my time if/when the Lambos come rolling in

I'd love to have enough time/money to make and distribute music just for the art with no commercial incentive. Go and get some of those really good buskers off he street, get them in the studio and touring.

Got to have a dream.

It's a great idea...

maybe 3 years of doing it before you are bored???

[Jog On]

I want a recording studio, record label and time to learn and practice music and hire session musicians, set up gigs/events/festivals etc.

No problems filling my time if/when the Lambos come rolling in

I'd love to have enough time/money to make and distribute music just for the art with no commercial incentive. Go and get some of those really good buskers off he street, get them in the studio and touring.

Got to have a dream.

[SunnyInHades]

So for those who can't think much if anything fulfilling to do in their spare time, having pots of money may not be all it's cracked up to be and may even be a curse.

Money allows the pursuit of hobbies in spare time, like stamp collecting..



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[vwdan]

Some people don't really get it, I feel sorry for them in a way. They say things like "Yeah, but I'd be bored and have nothing to do if I were wealthy enough to quit work..."

I mean, you prefer some jumped up little permie twerp telling you to get in earlier and close more JIRA tickets in the Sprint, or maybe you'd instead like to go swim with some dolphins in the Bahamas or write a novel or play golf and stay in nice hotels in wonderful locations....

I think some form of "work" is important for ones wellbeing - I like to think I'd find the time to get into charity, interesting investments, maybe take a punt on some fun businesses or something. Sure as hell wouldn't be working "for" somebody, though.

But yes, overall I agree with you. "Bored" is not really something I can comprehend given funding, but then I've always had way way too many hobbies I could write off a year just flying, for a start I reckon.

I think the problem with money, ignoring lottery wins and windfalls, is that the type of people who can earn big money aren't generally the type of people who can sit back and relax. I think we all have a....I dunno... a degree of work ethic we settle on. I know I'm never ever going to be a Fortune 100 CEO because reading those "Day in a life of" things where they're up at 5 reading the Financial Times make me wince - my first port of call of being "in charge" would be to sleep in until 9 every day!

[OwlHoot]

I mean, you prefer some jumped up little permie twerp telling you to get in earlier and close more JIRA tickets in the Sprint, ..

How many tickets have you closed so far today? Come on, get to it - No time to sit around posting all day, when there are bugs to be fixed!

[DimPrawn]

It's a fair point.

I mean if you suddenly won the lottery and never had to work how soon would
a) You get your golf handicap down to single figures
b) Become an alcoholic/addict of some kind
c) Travel the world
d) Do something useful

For me if i won the lottery would probably start a small racing team.... but then in reality that is just 'working' again

I mean maybe if I had loads of money I may spend more time trying to be more imaginative...

Some people don't really get it, I feel sorry for them in a way. They say things like "Yeah, but I'd be bored and have nothing to do if I were wealthy enough to quit work..."

I mean, you prefer some jumped up little permie twerp telling you to get in earlier and close more JIRA tickets in the Sprint, or maybe you'd instead like to go swim with some dolphins in the Bahamas or write a novel or play golf and stay in nice hotels in wonderful locations....

No? okay enjoy wasting your life at work ...

[original PM]

It's a fair point.

I mean if you suddenly won the lottery and never had to work how soon would
a) You get your golf handicap down to single figures
b) Become an alcoholic/addict of some kind
c) Travel the world
d) Do something useful

For me if i won the lottery would probably start a small racing team.... but then in reality that is just 'working' again

I mean maybe if I had loads of money I may spend more time trying to be more imaginative...

[DimPrawn]

John Cleese nailed it in an interview I saw a while ago - The most useful thing money buys is time, as in spare time to do what you want and not have to occupy your hours with employment and chores

^ this.

F.I.R.E.

Could you get financial independence and retire early? | This is Money

Best way to achieve this is too earn 10x the amounts quoted in that stupid DM article and work 10x fewer hours in a lifetime...

[OwlHoot]

Money really does buy you happiness say scientists | Daily Mail Online

Money really can buy happiness, scientists claim - but only up to a point.

Researchers have found an annual income of between £43,000 ($60,000) and £54,000 ($75,000) is the ideal amount for emotional well-being.

They also discovered an income of £68,000 ($95,000) is the maximum amount people should earn to be completely satisfied with life.

Earning any more than this can cause people to be miserable because they become too focused on material goods, researchers claim.

Time to beg the clients for a rate cut!

John Cleese nailed it in an interview I saw a while ago - The most useful thing money buys is time, as in spare time to do what you want and not have to occupy your hours with employment and chores

(Maybe also time to live longer with the best medical care, although I think he was referring mainly to the first, i.e. leisure time)

So for those who can't think much if anything fulfilling to do in their spare time, having pots of money may not be all it's cracked up to be and may even be a curse.

As Samuel Johnson said, vaguely in connection with this, "If you are idle be not melancholy, and if you are melancholy be not idle"

[greenlake]

Researchers have found an annual income of between £43,000 ($60,000) and £54,000 ($75,000) is the ideal amount for emotional well-being.

[BR14]

Why you are all miserable bastards...

that's Mister miserable bastard to you lot