Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan? |
Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan? |
Then do that thing instead of trying to make a million.
Want to have a sailing yacht? You can go as crew and sail on yachts as much as your heart desires and pretty much anywhere you want. I mean actually piloting the yacht at the steering wheel. You'll had enough of sailing in much shorter time than it takes to make a million.
Want to be a millionaire so that you can sleep with the most beautiful girls? You can do that by going to whores for much less than a million, if you're only focusing on the money route.
Want to be a millionaire so you can live on the beach? You can live on the beach for much less, as evident by millions of poor people living on the beach.
And you can usually have the highest quality of anything it is you desire in the world, for a fair price.
Want to be a millionaire to have a Ferrari? If you want to go fast you can have a sports motorcycle for a fraction of that cost, and much more fun to ride.
Whatever it is that your million bucks can bring you, you can have it easier if you clear your mind and ask yourself what it is you really want.
But to answer your question of what it is I want.
One thing I want is to be able to travel the world and visit certain locations known for their historic value. Visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, because of my interest in that period of history. This is just one example of a place I'd love to visit.
But...
As I write this I realize you're right and you don't need a million dollars for that. But I don't have enough boney to fulfill that dream either, thus, a million dollars would be nice to have.
Maybe if the real plan was to sell access to "the plan"?
Earn an easy-to-agree-upon 10% commission selling $10M of somebody elses' goods that they really need to move this year.
Victor Niederhoffer, The Education of a Speculator
Just fly wherever your current wealth amount figure equates to $1M in local purchasing power vs. where you live right now.
That way you'd also fulfill the next step in the hedonistic tradmill after you make $1M:
"It's not sufficient that I win, everyone else must lose"
2 birds with one stone.
Provide real value (target “strongly exceeds expectations”) and get a good bonus.
At my current comp level, With a four year vest and one year vesting cliff that’d probably do the trick. (I should probably go do that)
Edit: Besides, are millionaires easily accessible to people who aren't millionaires?
No, but the OP said:
> I would probably use the money I have now to buy whatever nice flashy thing I have to seem rich
A good con artist can get far that way.
Look at all the highstreet nail salons - no innovation, and not a whole lot to differentiate them. They are just providing a product/service where there is known demand, and taking a slice of the pie.
$1M in 1 year seem a pretty high bar starting from scratch, but on a longer timeframe things like real-estate rental and franchise businesses seem an all but guaranteed way to get rich just "taking a slice of the pie" beyond what you'll do working for someone else.