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My question for 2008

Posted in beautiful life, inspirational, productivity.

First of all, Happy New Year!

Second of all, I’ve been a lying bastard in 2007 and have blogged extremely little over here, leaving all you faithful readers just hanging and desperately waiting for more insightful, funny, informative or simply original articles.

Third of all, given that this is the best time for New Year resolutions, here’s my question/story for all of you:

How much money would you want in order to NEVER WORK AGAIN?

Let’s pretend I’m a rich bastard that can give you a fixed amount of money, with only one condition: you MUST NEVER work again. Not even for charity, not even for your own freelance gig, not even to help your spouse around the house or to take gardening as a hobby. Would you agree to such a deal? If so, what would your price be?

If you’d never agree to this(as I, for instance), please think a bit about your reasons. I know mine, and I’ll disclose them although I might influence your silent answer:

I like too much doing stuff. I take the most excitement in actually doing something useful, and the feeling of meeting my job deadlines is too good to give up. This is also the reason most successful people have always a hard time quiting their jobs: work is fun and without it we’d be bored to death.

Think about it.

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  1. Liev said

    Hi, i think i’m having major issues with my mac. I have tiger installed for a while and working fine.

    When turned on yesterday it got stuck, so i got the install disk 1 and proceeded with disk utility.

    I think i modified the permissions access, so when i restarted the system (once again with install disk) it didn’t see the hard drive to even reintall osx…

    Now i can only boot with the install disk to get at least something on the screen but even then i can’t reinstall since it doesn’t see any HD….

    Any advice?