What work would you do if you knew you were financially secure (like a couple million dollars in a trust fund but not infinite money)? Talking to my buddy who is graduating college and he has no idea what he wants to do but has enough security to do anything.

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I’m set to inherit a couple million. This hasn’t changed anything I do because I know it’s not enough to completely do whatever I want and will need a steady job.

Also feel the need to take advantage of the opportunity my parents handed to me on a silver platter that I didn’t deserve. I think that’s enough motivation.

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Yea I get that. I just mean that they set me up for every possible opportunity. They pushed the importance of education and gave me everything I needed to succeed. Feel like all their efforts would be in vain if I just said I wanna move to Thailand and live on a beach.

Start a real estate portfolio and keep growing it

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Depends on the state (not Illinois or New Jersey) but a very good suggestion

I’d tell him to use his family’s connections to get whatever fricken job he wants. If he’s got $2M in the bank, you’d be shocked to see what opportunities could be open to him from whoever his parents know. Sad but very honest and true. Have him Go work in sports making $30k/year, or go work in alcohol sales or something interesting. In the end It doesn’t matter as he will eventually get his MBA from a top school, and go into some lucrative job where he’ll advance quickly making money and possibly not even touching his trust fund, creating another generation of wealth. I promise you, life will not suck for him.

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The guy is crazy creative as well. Got offered a job at a very prominent pop culture / music magazine writing columns / articles and turned it down. I’m sure he has nothing but good stuff in front of him I just think he is suffering from choice overload.

I've always been interested in academia. Never found a way to make it work. If I ever ended up financially secure, I'd pursue that.

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I would do nothing. Like the guy from office space. Nothing.

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And I think if I had that kind of spare time, I could make that happen...

I'd start my own government contracting firm. Grow it and then sell it in a couple of years for a couple mil

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Probably pure science.

Science is incredibly political - you need to get funding and what gets funded gets decided by someone else. So before you can make advancements youre area has to be seen as important.

I'd love to do research with no money worries

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I know a guy like this. He went to a top 10 school and then decided to be a traveling musician for a few years in the US and Europe and basically traded playing music for a place to sleep and something to eat. He came back to the US and rents a cottage from an older couple and pays for half of his rent by doing labor on their farm and helps to manage a brewery. He doesn't buy anything new and prefers to barter for items. He does a lot of meditation and yoga. One of the happiest people I know could be mistaken for someone who's homeless, and you would never think they had a multi-million dollar trust fund.

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Most of the ladies in his life have been the festival type. I assume if he ever settles down he will raise his children to be very free spirited and follow their own paths to happiness regardless if it's through business or basket weaving...quite a luxury.

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