Job if you won the lottery?

grantwilliams

I thought it would be cool to see what people would want to do if you just 500 million dollars through the lottery. I think I would want to be a professional student and earn a bunch of degrees, or be a fireman/EMT.

Curious3141

Race car driver. Also frontman of my own death metal band.

grantwilliams

I thought buying crap cars and fixing them and racing them would be awesome as well

Monique

I'd use the money for funding of my research, 500 million should do the trick.

turbo

I'd set up a trust fund to help poor kids go to college, and continue to live in the woods and tend my garden. Maybe I'd buy a bigger piece of land farther away from others, but I'd still build nothing bigger than this place, all on one floor. I'd add a root cellar, too, but that's about it.

grantwilliams

There is something oddly satisfying about working on a ranch or a farm/garden. I used to love to go to my uncle's ranch and help him with various jobs and I wouldn't mind a job like that either.

cobalt124

Buy a cottage in the middle of nowhere for me and my family and keep horses and possibly start an animal sanctuary.

leroyjenkens

Buy a ton of rockets, strap them to the ground facing the same direction, and slow down the Earth's rotation.

Chi Meson

With 500 million dollars... what a thought!
I'd set aside a cool million for each kid once they finish college... hmm, 497 mil left...

I'd get an architecture degree, and then build a couple of thousand tiny-footprint homes across the country; pick the one I like best, sell the rest.

zoobyshoe

I spend about 100 million buying rental properties outright. Then I'd rent them out and start raking in the income.

Then I'd buy a machine shop, people it with retired machinists who wanted something to do, and have them manufacture scientific demonstration equipment from Navy scrap metal to be given free to high schools.

I'd poll the high school physics teachers here to see what equipment they wished they had, and get the PF engineers to design prints of the sturdiest practical embodiments.

The labor would be all volunteer, but there'd still be electricity bills, shipping costs, etc. That would come out of the rental properties income. I'd own them outright, fee simple, so their only expenses would be taxes, insurance, and maintenance and management. Plenty of profit to put into the shop.

Then I'd buy a 24 hour coffee house and sit in it all day and night and draw in between answering the phone.

wuliheron

I'd found a TV channel dedicated to exposing the abuses of corporations and then see how much they offer to buy me out.

Evo

I'd fund animal sanctuaries and free veterinary clinics for people that can't afford it, especially emergency or major illness.

D H

I'd give a small amount to good tax lawyer so as to avoid "donating" half of it to various governments as taxes.

Drakkith

Other than going to school and buying myself an awesome telescope or twelve, I'd go to the guys at EMC2 and pour some money into their fusion research using the Polywell.

rootX

Go around the world and become a Nat Geo Explorer

Dr Transport

sell my house, move farther into the woods off of a road without a name. I'd put a sign out in front saying "Trespassers will be shot, survivors shot again". As for the job, I'd keep the one I have just to tick off all of my co-workers.

nonequilibrium

Start my own university.