Reddit, I work from home and a single day's work covers all my expenses for a month. Would you work more or less in this situation?

igotfiveonit · 1 year

You should take me under your wing so I can work from home and earn a high income.

ravenberg · 1 year

What do you do?

but_do_u_RLY_mean_it · 1 year

why not do something productive with your extra time and money? Not to sound like a tree hugger or anything, but why not volunteer your time and money to charitable organisations? Do you like animals? Join a rescue team. Maybe by doing something a that gives you personal satisfaction would get you out of your slump?

lawstudent2 · 1 year

work your ass off now for a couple years and save every spare penny. your job may not last forever, and it is smarter to work when you are young and have energy, rather than having a string of badluck then realizing you are 40 and will be a wage slave for the rest of your life. in other words, you have the opportunity to make yourself financially secure and independently wealthy for the rest of your life in your 20s. do. not. waste. it.

when/if you decide to settle down, get married, and buy a house, that money will make all the difference in the universe. conversely, early retirement FTW.

cptn_rmpt · 1 year

What would people do in this situation?

Cocaine. Your too-much-money problems will be over.

openfacesurgery · 1 year

I'd work solidly every hour under the sun for two years. By my calculations this would provide enough money for 730 months or approximately 60.8 years. I'd then retire.

TheOuts1der · 1 year

Buy some friends?

I'm kidding.

But really.

hillahilla · 1 year

Do your citizen duty. Consume more.

KrystalPistol · 1 year

Do you wish you had saved up more money when you were younger?

Duh. Hell yes. You never know what life's gonna throw at you. Save up!

cglass · 1 year

First I would contact the user cglass, and tell him what it is you do, and describe for him a step by step process of how you got there.

However silly this process may seem, you must know it is very important. Next I would make sure you completed the first step, and that should pretty much do it.

DigiSmackd · 1 year

Wow, I answered a very similar question yesterday. Does it apply here?

this_time_i_mean_it · 1 year

Sounds like you need to challenge yourself.

Take on a big, new project... start a small game dev. studio, for example. That's something I would love to do, were I in that situation.

BlackDragonBE · 1 year

I'm in my early 20s and I hardly make enough to be able to keep living here...
What is your job exactly and how did you get it?

bernie2122 · 1 year

ENJOY LIFE! I doubt you will find anyone on their deathbeds saying, "you know, I really should of spent more time working".

Carpe diem.

Here is a quick story. There were two brothers in pre-WWII Germany. One saved and worked hard. The other partied and rarely saved anything. After the Germany currency was devalued to the point of being completely valueless, WHICH BROTHER WAS THE WISEST?

You could fall down and break your neck tomorrow.

dsac · 1 year

work as much as you can now, bank the extra, and retire at 35.

Qikdraw · 1 year

If you can live off of one day's work, work a full week and then as this_time_i_mean_it said, start up a large project that you can do to fill your time with.

Also save for retirement. Plan ahead and make sure when you retire you retire with enough money coming in to live off of it comfortably.

[deleted] · 1 year

Well, there's way more to life than just traveling. Try new things! Experience new hobbies. Go act in a local play. Take up carpentry. Learn how to shoot a gun. Become an insanely good cook.

You have the chance to work one day a month to cover your life and any extra work is just surplus income...you have the rare opportunity to do virtually whatever you want.

Please don't waste it. Those of us who have jobs we have to go to for more time than we are at home each week will just be disappointed in you.

thom5r · 1 year

Buy a boat.

[deleted] · 1 year

Hire me?

VicPro · 1 year

Volunteer. If you don't like the prospect of giving to charity (it isn't really like you say, but moving on), donate your time doing something you're good at or something menial for a cause you're interested in. It gives you a reason to get out of the house and working for no pay really gives you a feeling of humility and some satisfaction that you're helping.

psyon · 1 year

I am in a similar situation. I work from home, and my main job is to respond if servers I administer go down. Any more, I can fix them from my phone. I work on my own websites as well, trying to make them grow, but when the money I am paid for server work pays my bills, it's hard to get motivated to do more. The servers haven't gone down in a year probably. I help out with other projects from the guys who pay me when I get bored though. I do some volunteer work with reptiles and amphibians. Just find what makes you happy and do that. I might work a little more than 1 day a month just to put some money away in case your work stops.

seanomenon · 1 year

Do you own your home or rent? If I were you, I would buy a nice place, somewhat central to a town or city. (The suburbs will be the ghettos of the 21st century.) If you are already paying a mortgage, work to pay it off early and own your home outright. Put lots of money into stable investments. If you do it right, you could work part or full time now and retire completely by 30 or 35.

gayguy · 1 year

Work more and save. You never know when you'll need it. Maybe you won't have this job in x years. Maybe you want to buy something dumb or eat a fancy meal.

Joecuki · 1 year

Become a connoisseur of something. I have a taste for tough-to-get beer and extreme style examples. Do you like wines? Beers?

Or you could buy a fuckin parakeet man. Parakeets are awesome, and they will bond to you very well since you have the time to spend with him/her. Get a parakeet very small and hold them frequently, don't clip wings and let if fly free into and out of its cage. He/She will be a super-awesome low-maintenance pet.

AdmOxalate · 1 year

You are very young, and like us all, only have a few short years to place ourselves in the context of human history.

Everything in life so far has helped you figure out your place in the stream of time, and will likely shape the person you think you are, and hope to become. Use some time to make a list of the things you think you know, or take for granted, then spend time looking for your own answers to the important questions.

Wherever and whenever they lived, people tend to think that they have a grasp on the reality of things such as they are, and usually fall into the complacency that they pretty much have things figured out. Don't fall for it, question everything, and explore as much as you can. This time will never come again.

Also make sure you have a lot saved (materially/emotionally/intellectually/spiritually) for when life takes things you took for granted from you.

raider1v11 · 1 year

clearly you need some hobbies.

VictorNightingale · 1 year

I'd work harder for a short period of time, and save enough money so that the interest would pay me a high income salary for the rest of my life. Once I reached that point I'd retire.

Monotropy · 1 year

Don't take anything for granted. Save. What if you get sick? What if you can't work anymore?
Do you have a passion? Anything at all? Go for it.
You are obviously an individual with a great deal of knowledge and exceptional skills. How could you apply those to make the world a better place?

MrDNL · 1 year

You wanna do some gratis work for me? :) I mean, if you're bored, I'd love someone to take a crack at the Mailchimp API for me so I can host my email newsletter archives on my own site (and fix all the horrific typos in the archives).

catsfive · 1 year

A man can learn a variety of skills. But enjoying life, being happy, and losing one's egotistical sense of self is a skill very, very few master. Or, in this case, even attempt.

Drout · 1 year

Lawyer up. Hit the gym.

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