<p>everyone works hard...c'mon, we know that people consider financial wealth a major motivation for challenging yourself, getting that grade, whatever it is you're doing...</p>
<p>so what if you accomplished that? where would you stand at age 32 as a wall street banker, with a house in the hamptons...what comprises your life and how are you sure that you've found value in what you do?</p>
<p>as an upcoming generation of leaders and innovators, maybe sometimes we have to consider the future, what we do for our future children and the world in general. this world is a cruel cycle. can't we change it? i think we could end global poverty, if its not our generation, who is it? so i ask you CC'ers this question: what would be the point of you earning so much money? please be honest. if you plan to spend it on cars, just say so. no one's judging. just wanna know how topachievers really feel about life goals.</p>
<p>my answer: earn money to support my family and also to contribute to causes i believe in like global warming and end poverty</p>
<p>Anyway, I want to earn money because I want to be able to have what I want and to enjoy life, since you can do so much more in life if you have money.</p>
<p>I want to be the richest and most famous person in the world.</p>
<p>With the money I'd buy all the cars, jewelry, clothes, companies, and luxuries that money could by.</p>
<p>I'd use money to help the Latino people become the most prominent in the world, I'd run my own universities and research facilities for curing major illnesses, and I'd help those that really need it.</p>
<p>And many more materialistic things that I left out. I am a strong believer in money being able to buy happiness, and it's proved itself to me over and over again in the past.</p>
<p>i just want enough money so that I don't live paycheck to paycheck.</p>
<p>However, if I do ever find myself rich (like rich enough to donate significant amounts of money), i think i would like to be an anonymous donor to an poor, urban (or rural, i guess it doesn't matter) school distract. However, if i had that much money, don't doubt that i'd have a nice house (nice... maybe 300,000, anything more is excessive), and I'd have maybe a couple nice cars (1.5 cars for every driver, maybe).</p>
<p>Money is low on my list of priorities. It always has been, and although I know how cheesy and cliche it is to say happiness is my first priority, it really is. I'm not materialistic, don't have a cellphone, crusty sneakers, and while I recognize money is very important, and that I need a decent amount, it's not what motivates me.</p>
<p>I chose a college that is nontraditional(280 students, one major that no one can actually define, Human Ecology) so that I didn't go down a typical career path. I didn't want to end up in a school to get a job, I wanted to learn about life, about the world, about what I could do to make it better. So if I had money, i'd use most of it charitably. I strongly believe in animal rights, and staunchly oppose factory farms, so I imagine that's what my wealth would be funded towards.</p>
<p>But I simply don't see me making the big bucks. I'd be happy living in a house by the ocean, convicing people one at a time to not buy meat from factory farms...</p>
<p>I don't think I'd want to have enough money to spend on causes. I'd be too preoccupied with making sure the money was spent in the best possible way.</p>