By Melissa Rayner
Is it May 21st yet? Good, we still have time to figure out how we’ll celebrate the greatest arbitrary holiday of them all, National Be a Millionaire Day.
So you may think that being a millionaire is all gold swimming pools and palatial country estates…
But, really, you need to be prepared to work hard not just until you make it but also after. I suggest you learn to appreciate the “poetry of housekeeping.”
Because if you inherit your millionaire status, you’re sure to become bored and blase (but will still, of course, manage to appreciate poetry in its many forms).
So journey down many potential paths to richness, and find which will best rise up to meet you.
Ultimately, of course, if you do what you love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life–and that’s kind of even better than being a millionaire.
How will you be a millionaire today?
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About the Author
Melissa is obsessed with books, birds, and bonbons. She is a new mom and holds an MA in Applied Sociology. She also writes fiction and skips about the interweb as Emlyn Chand.
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- Carter, Mary Elizabeth. Millionaire Households and Their Domestic Economy, with Hints upon Fine Living. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Web. 19 May 2015.
- Alger, Horatio. Nothing to do : a tilt at our best society. Boston: James French, 1857. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. Web. 19 May 2015.
- Comerer, Marshall. Impatient Millionaire (750). 23 Apr. 1961. TS News Features, 1944-1993: News Features, 1944-1993. Associated Press Corporate Archives. Associated Press Collections Online. Web. 19 May 2015.
- Newhouse, Eric. The Millionaire Sheriff. 5 Sept. 1971. TS News Features, 1944-1993: News Features, 1944-1993. Associated Press Corporate Archives. Associated Press Collections Online. Web. 19 May 2015.