Now the question you have to ask yourself occasionally is what exactly you’d be doing if you had all the money in the world, complete with no bills, agendas or reasons to report in every day other than you are just totally in love with what you do.

For me, that’s doing things that have never been done before that make other people go “wow”, typically based around the arts and/or technology.

So i like the idea of using nature to beat man’s evil, for example genetically modifying cress to flower a different colour where landmines are secretly hidden in the soil.

Or maybe, it would be working at MIT and finding a cure for fear.

But the ultimate sexy project that no-one could possibly afford or contemplate would be terraforming a planet to sustain human and animal life.

[At a typical Foo-Foo cocktail party]
“So what did do you do 9 to 5 then if you’re not in thei nsurance business like all of us?”
“Well, right now we’re terraforming a new planet.”
“Oh.”
[end of conversation]