Members techristian Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Would you quit your job? Spend more time with the family? Cash in all of your investments and travel the world? Retire?...or would you stay on the same path that you are already on? I'm already retired. There isn't much that I could do differently. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted August 25, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 25, 2011 Yeah, I'd cash in a little, quit the day gig, and travel with my daughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hard Truth Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 I would quit my day job, travel and visit friends and family. Then I would organize, archive and transfer my lifetime of music work and put as much as possible online in hopes that it would be heard well into the future. Any left over time would be devoted to making love and music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 It would likely take a year to condence and package all the music I've written and recorded so I couldpass it on to my kids. Maybe somewheres down the family chain someone will make good use of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Hmm, interesting question. I really enjoy my life as it is. There's not a lot I'd do differently. I'd probably rush to get a bunch of music recorded that I've been lingering to finish. But I already spend a lot of time with my kid and my ladyfriend, and am fortunate enough to perform and write music as often as I like. I live in a nice place, so I don't have a tremendous desire to travel. I wouldn't really cash in my savings, but I'd make sure it was set up to go to my son. So really, I'd basically do what I'm doing now. I guess that's a good sign about my lifestyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted August 25, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 25, 2011 For those that are saying they'd get their music out there... it's sort of a telling statement. Maybe the time to do that is now? A year ago I'd have been saying the same thing about wanting to get my music out, but I've been completing and posting my music on youtube consistently for a year now. I feel pretty good about that. It completes the cycle of creating. What better time than now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urca Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 I have a list of people that need to be dealt with.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bookumdano2 Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 I'd slam everything to the back burner and hurry up and ask Rudi Bakhtiar to marry me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Seeing as how I have no money, no assets and no investments, I'd kind of have no choice but to keep doing what I'm doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 I'd probably do what I do now... except waste less time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'd do the same things I do during my summer (I usually don't work during this time) except that I'd go and see friends and family more. Otherwise, it's traveling, taking photos, and playing/recording music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 144dB Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 I would take more risks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted August 26, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 I would take more risks... Sky diving or bungy jumping? Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'd do everything I could to make sure my wife and daughter would be comfortable without me around, which would probably mean working until I dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 I would try to write down as much wisdom as I hope I've gathered in life, along with the things for which I'm most deeply grateful, and put it all in the form of letters to my wife and kids. nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted August 26, 2011 CMS Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 I don't know how much time I have left, but at 68, it might be a year, might be 25 years. I don't have any family so there's nobody to provide for when I'm gone, my web page with all my wisdom will probably stay around until the Internet goes out of business. I have a will that distributes some of my money to a few organizations that I've worked with (music-oriented) and who can always use some cash. I'm donating all of my old mixers and recorders to Craig because "analog just works." But just this week I put a deposit on a new house in California, and that's something I've never done before. (Ken, Jeff, Blue2blue - hope you guys got good backs and can help me move furniture) This venture will probably take most of the money I was going to give away to future culture. And I'm completely prepared to back out of the deal in case I don't like how it turns out. Then I can do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 I don't know how much time I have left, but at 68, it might be a year, might be 25 years. I don't have any family so there's nobody to provide for when I'm gone, my web page with all my wisdom will probably stay around until the Internet goes out of business. I have a will that distributes some of my money to a few organizations that I've worked with (music-oriented) and who can always use some cash. I'm donating all of my old mixers and recorders to Craig because "analog just works." But just this week I put a deposit on a new house in California, and that's something I've never done before. (Ken, Jeff, Blue2blue - hope you guys got good backs and can help me move furniture) This venture will probably take most of the money I was going to give away to future culture. And I'm completely prepared to back out of the deal in case I don't like how it turns out. Then I can do it again. Well, you can always adopt me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members michaell Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 Would you quit your job? Spend more time with the family? Cash in all of your investments and travel the world? Retire?...or would you stay on the same path that you are already on?I'm already retired. There isn't much that I could do differently.Dan Great question. I belive that if this really were said to me ( you are terminal ) what I would choose to do would be completely different than an answer I would provide just pondering ( with no death threat ). Here's my shot at an answer. I would get as much cash as possible....then travel. See those I wanted to see to say goodbye and maybe go to Europe. Never been there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 Sell the house and everything else (except the Les Paul I'll be buried with), quit the job, buy a BRAND NEW Harley and live on my savings while I hit the road. The Northwest and the Southeast are two areas of the country I haven't really seen yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 Just wanted to add, I would definitely keep my job... I truly feel it is what I was put on this earth plane for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 Nothing different really, because we all have only one year left, or one day, or 100 more years. Unless you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lukenskywalker Posted August 26, 2011 Members Share Posted August 26, 2011 Amen, Laird Timothy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rjt Posted August 28, 2011 Members Share Posted August 28, 2011 Well, I work in a hospital and see how quickly life can "turn around" (usually in bad ways) so I already try to live every day pretty fully. In an effort to be sure I have enough $$ for the future and my upcoming retirement, I travel economy class, and am generally pretty frugal about eating out etc. I would probably travel in luxury for a couple of fairly lengthy trips while I ponder who might benefit from any money I had left..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rogue105 Posted August 28, 2011 Members Share Posted August 28, 2011 be nicer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 28, 2011 Members Share Posted August 28, 2011 Quit working. MAYBE even quit playing music. And spend every possible second I could with my wife and 3 year old daughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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