Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by jogjayr » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 7:06 PM UTC

bartvk wrote: post #10

A couple of months of living costs in savings is not a luxury, if you have a family. I'd stash it in a savings account. Feel free to take a holiday, but then I'd get back to work.

This, except I'd put it in a low-fee index fund. Or some sort of rental property.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by maxsavin » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 7:23 PM UTC

Assuming you're in the west, move abroad. You can probably stretch your money for a year or two and live very well. There, you can work or do whatever you want.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by cosinetau » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

Sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by ayylmaoo » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 8:31 PM UTC

Thailand!

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by lfx » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

1 month would plan the trip.

3 months travel.

2 months back to working rhythm, look for clients, ideas, etc.

I would really fortunate to get such possibility during this year season!

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by bsvalley » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 8:40 PM UTC

I'd be very interested in your story. Have you posted something somewhere about your product and how you got approached by the buyer? Is it an app, a desktop tool, etc?

Curious to hear about these kind of stories in detail... if you guys agree just thumbs up that comment and it'll stick at the top.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by drewrv » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 8:40 PM UTC

Lets change the question to "how do I want to spend this money?". It sounds like you don't know, since you're unsure how you want to spend this time. If I were in your situation, I'd bank the money until I was certain I knew how I wanted to spend it. By all means take a bit of time off, but be thoughtful about how you spend large quantities of money and time.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by petiepooo » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 8:43 PM UTC

Sock it all away and keep working. You seem like a smart guy. Google "compounding interest."

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by billconan » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

finish a side project and write a tech book.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months?

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Post by milesvp » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 11:08 PM UTC

jogjayr wrote: post #11

bartvk wrote: post #10

A couple of months of living costs in savings is not a luxury, if you have a family. I'd stash it in a savings account. Feel free to take a holiday, but then I'd get back to work.

This, except I'd put it in a low-fee index fund. Or some sort of rental property.

Index funds have short term risks. bartvk was giving the basic advice of putting it into savings since 6-9 months is a very appropriate cash buffer. Always keep in mind, that reasons for needing cash and down markets tend to be highly correlated (think losing your job because the stock market lost 40% of it's value in less than a month).