Baller shit to do in a 80h+ work week

Bros, what are some real baller things to do when you´re getting absolutely buttfucked on several pitches and live deals as a new analyst, but you also earn a shitload of money, but you are also incredibly antisocial? I´m not talking shit like going to the disco and spending 500 bucks an evening on a single girl, but some cool, wacked out shit, like... idk? Trying out Matsuhisa? Ordering caviar on the corporate card? Must be something I can do alone. Eager to hear your thoughts.

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rent out a supercar for a night/weekend and gun it down some highways. 

go to a gun range, rent/buy an expensive fully-auto and fuck around let off some steam on target practice.

do some drugs with your friends at an edm festival/club night and let go of work. 

go to a casino, bring girls with you. 

rent out a room at one of the top hotels in your city and get a penthouse suite, get the best food available delivered in, roll some joints, and sit in the rooftop jacuzzi smokin and relaxing.

These are some of the things I'd do, time permitted

 
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If you have a sports car join a local track and take out your toy for the weekend. If you don’t have a sports car, some tracks have exotic cars you can rent for the day and track them with an instructor. Pretty fun if you go often and you’ll learn a lot about driving at a cars limit. 

 

Been here for 3 years now for school so here’s some baller shit I see my graduated peers in IB do: take dates out to Nobu, Alinea, etc. Bottle service at Tao, Bounce, LIQRbox, and any other club in river north. Also boating in the play pen. Couple of my brothers in my fraternity have their parents’ boats docked on Lake Mich (north of Chicago in the burbs) so we take them down and have a sick time during the summer.

 

Some ideas to consider:

a. If you see someone in need, ball out and buy them a decent meal or fund a kid's education in another country. Spread good vibes. It fostered gratitude and humility when I was able to help someone in need. 

b. Ball out for a high-end barber/spa experience. There may be male-specific spas worth looking up. $100 to $500. 

c. Go to a fancy restaurant. By yourself. Ball out on fancy food. $200 to $1,000.

d. This one requires spending time with another person literally strapped to you. Go skydiving once the weather warms up. $150 - $500.

e. This one requires spending time with another person in a small space. Go take an introductory flight at a local flight school. Everyone gets one introductory flight. ~$100 for ~40 mins of flying a Cessna 172 with an instructor. By flying, I mean you get to take off, do a few turns and take in the local scenery on a sunny summer afternoon.

f. Get your motorcycle license and get yourself a ninja 250 or 300 this summer. Next year, get yourself a Triumph Daytona or a Ducati 848/1098/1199. Nothing like going on a ride by yourself on backroads. ~$500 for license + $2,000/year for insurance +$1,000 for gear. Bikes will cost anywhere from ~$3,000 to $7,000 and you can make that back when you sell them. These are based on Canadian licensing fees and insurance rates.

 

I did the motorcycle thing. F'n loved it and highly recommend it. I used to tear up the Gardiner at 3 am after getting out of the office. Agree that Ninja 250/300 is the right starter bike (excellent "extras" like ABS which are not usually standard for lower price point/cc bikes), but I ended up getting upsold by a friend to a Suzuki 650 because I am stupid that way (more powerful, but still not a Litre bike).

However, I would actually recommend going to proper "Motorcycle Driving School" first (before buying the bike - they will providing a training one for you, usually a Honda 250). Don't want to be "that" kind of stupid. Riding a motorcycle is legit dangerous for reasons that are not your fault. Drivers in cars just don't see you (physically and mentally - you just don't register on the road).

Sold my bike when I moved to NYC. I'm not suicidal. Also, insurnace could be more than $2k depending on your age. For some people, insurance may cost almost as much as/more than the bike (at least for the first year or two).

Also, another piece of (unsolicited) advice. I considered my bike my "mini yacht" - a little toy vehicle in my price range. And like yachts - it's not the price of the yacht that gets you, it's the berthing: Look for an easily accessable garage near your office/home that has a special (cheaper) rate for motorcycle parking.

If you are at Bay and King - for me (at the time) this was the CIBC building.

 

Thanks mate, appreciate the input

a. Will have to do that in the future anyways, since I´ll be an uncle in a few months, and my sibling isn´t quite the money maker

b. Not a bad idea, my back has been killing me for years now. Might try these fancy stones and a massage

c. Yeah, that´s on my list for sure, or me and my girl for her birthday

d. Definitely on my bucket list for years now

e. My dad had a license for flying, took me flying a few times in a Cessna. One of my most treasured memories

f. Nice idea, but my hand-eye-coordination is so fucked, I´ll pancake myself on a wall within the hour lmao

 

Here’s some baller shit only for the big dogs

  • Go to Bergdorfs and laugh at all the plebs that are unable to spend $5k on a wallet. You can. Buy it and then throw it away while in the store. Zap the salesperson with a ‘my black card wouldn’t fit. But you wouldn’t know about that’. Kaboom. Baller as shit
  • Make a reservation at Eleven Madison Park. Offer Daniel Humm $10,000 to make you a steak. To solidify your baller status tell him that ‘vegetarians deserve the Darwin Award of the century. Get me some wagu. I’d even take a skirt steak other than these sticks and leaves you call cuisine.’ A full palm slap on the hostess’s cheeks will gain you instant presence. At worst, all the patrons will think you’re the man
  • Shop at Audemars Piguet and get a Royal Oak Offshore that’s murdered out in diamonds. Tell the store you just want diamonds and would shop at Timex if they offered what you want
  • Rent a powder blue Bentley convertible and blast ‘Miami’ by Will Smith. Drive up and down 5th avenue at least 10 times

Remember. You’re the man. Everyone thinks you’re cool. Show them you’re the coolest.

 

You'll have to go to Chrono24 or an aftermarket dealer in the diamond district if you want an AP... retail is still a disaster.

 

Buy a nice watch so you at least enjoy watching your 20's fade into the singularity. 

 

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