What amount of money would it take to solve my biggest problems?
Here are my biggest problems:
1. My father had a massive stroke and died. I miss him.
2. My mother has severe dementia and now acts like a toddler. I miss her too, in a strange way.
3. In the past 8 years, I have lost 5 close friends and family members including the cousin I grew up with who died very young of pancreatic cancer. I miss them all.
4. I have 3 loved ones with significant health problems. I wish there was more I could do to help. Better yet, I wish the would all just get well.
5. I love to build software and would like to build more, better, and faster.
6. The Pittsburgh Steelers (American football) lost yesterday. I'm crushed.
I have struggled with how more money could help (or have helped) with numbers 1 through 4, but I'm not quite sure how.
If I had more money, I could hire a bunch of people to help me with #5, but I think we're all learning that the correlation between having a lot of money and building lots of great software is becoming a very loose one.
I need a billion dollars to buy the Steelers and run them the way they should be run. I need another billion to pay the referees. In the meantime, I'll just sit and suffer on Mondays like this.
Well for #2, I can think of one solution having dealt with it myself. Generally for every person suffering dementia there is a family member taking care of them that is under a massive amount of stres. Sometimes having someone else to lend a hand, for even a few hours a week, is a huge difference. That person could either be a volunteer or paid, but having $$$ would always help the situation. If you find the organizations near you and donate to them, that would be a good use of (a portion of) a million dollars to help other people currently going through #2.
Why don't you apply to work for a software company that intersects with the health industry. I really think they need all the help they can get from smart tech people.
Not a whole lot of information about it online. Could you recommand other interesting companies mixing healthcare and software? I'm thinking about going to HIMSS conf in Florida this february to see who's doing cool stuff and looking for help.
What amount of money would it take to solve my biggest problems?
Here are my biggest problems:
1. My father had a massive stroke and died. I miss him.
2. My mother has severe dementia and now acts like a toddler. I miss her too, in a strange way.
3. In the past 8 years, I have lost 5 close friends and family members including the cousin I grew up with who died very young of pancreatic cancer. I miss them all.
4. I have 3 loved ones with significant health problems. I wish there was more I could do to help. Better yet, I wish the would all just get well.
5. I love to build software and would like to build more, better, and faster.
6. The Pittsburgh Steelers (American football) lost yesterday. I'm crushed.
I have struggled with how more money could help (or have helped) with numbers 1 through 4, but I'm not quite sure how.
If I had more money, I could hire a bunch of people to help me with #5, but I think we're all learning that the correlation between having a lot of money and building lots of great software is becoming a very loose one.
I need a billion dollars to buy the Steelers and run them the way they should be run. I need another billion to pay the referees. In the meantime, I'll just sit and suffer on Mondays like this.