What would your career be if money were no object?

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Inspiredby a colleague who has suddenly quit work to open up a life coaching/counselling business. I have a feeling, not sure why, that she won a not insignificant lottery amount. If you could do anything you wanted without worrying about money now or in the future, what would you do as your job?

Realistically, I'd probably not work at all and would be quite happy.

However, as that doesn't answer my own question 🤣 I will say I'd open up a wool shop or something and hire people to run crafty classes. I wouldn't want to run them myself though. Although, I don't want to deal with people at all somedays so maybe a shop isn't a good idea...

Back to working with horses and take my dogs with me.

I love being out in the fresh air, even if its peeing down with rain or minus figures.

Small holding with goats, in a cottage overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Scottish Highlands. I would be a lighthouse keeper for my main job.

I'd have a small holding, and run various things out of it - second hand books, tea shop, farm produce. All at pennies/ employing local people etc.

It would back onto a large outward bound centre my dh would run.

I would illustrate books on plants for the Royal botanical gardens in Edinburgh. They have a course which looks amazing.

I'd love to own a yarn shop, my husband wants to run a coffee shop so I think we'd combine the two! Coffee, cake and classes.

I can't make my mind up between running a micro brewery or a smallholding.

Landscape painter and photographer. Maybe make a few ceramics.

Art restorer. Or bookbinder

Swift retirement. Followed by one morning a week charity shop.

I would do nothing for a year, get my house sorted and my health tip top then I'd take time to find something to keep me busy, healthy and meeting interesting people.

Something with rescuing animals or taking in stray cats

Bookshop owner near a port with a small affordable wine bar serving cheap tapas.
Animal rescue in the back where people can volunteer in leiu of paying for lunch. Money no object obv!!

Furniture restoration or maybe open a craft shop.

Wildlife photographer

I'm another who would like a smallholding or something to do with horses.

I am also quite tempted by the idea of running a bookshop - I would love to be able to browse books all day but wonder if the novelty would wear off quickly.

I'd love to run a small campsite in the middle of one of the national parks and have a couple of dogs that can be with me all day at work.

Manage a charity shop

Running coach/personal trainer. Or just anything to do with running.

Full-time local councillor, a long-term one who all the local residents knew well, or maybe a vicar for similar reasons. People would come up to me in the supermarket and share their problems and I would smile beatifically down at them and say there now, we'll get this fixed up for you, what seems to be the trouble?

I would live in a rambling cottage with direct access to countryside walks, and I would have a library full of local history books. I might be a local historian/genealogist as a sideline. I would have a lot of warm woollen jumpers.

I'm a bit of a busybody :)

Gym class instructor/ personal trainer

selling magic card game cards on eBay, they are similar to Pokemon, as I play the game too, I'd be intrigued to see how the sales went, then I'd consider trying investing in the stock markets.

Oh a tattoo artist/corporate lawyer! Id love to be able to afford and have the time to do something so fun and edgy as tattoo people but also keep my grown up brain switched on by having companies pay me to tell them they can’t do things 🤣🤣

I had considered law, due to tv series, but then reconsidered to investment banker,.Or day trader ect

Was the TV series Ally McBeal?! I’m actually about to study law part time as redundancy forced a major career rethink!

I don't think I would bother with a career. I work to live don't live to work.