[kalasoo]

I got some hot cash several years ago unintentionally. After that, I set up 3 goals:

1. Maintain high quality life

2. Improve skills for my career

3. Meet more interesting friends

With these three goals, I did these:

1. Maintain high quality life

  1.1. I bought myself a lot of insurance, both financial and life
  1.2. One nice apartment
  1.3. Put about 20% to some low risk fund

2. Improve skills for my career

  2.1. Best keyboard, chairs and ... as a developer
  2.2. Books
  2.3. Donate some open source projects and make friends with contributors

3. Meet more interesting friends

  3.1. Host regular meetups of great developers in China
  3.2. Go to a nice gym as I find people who work out hard and keep self-discipline are normally class-a players
  3.3. Get much more opportunities when focusing on what's next than what you're paid

[closeparen]

These are all things you can (and should) do on a regular software engineer's salary, don't need to wait for a $5m windfall.

[muzani]

Depends on what regular software engineers in that area make. I had to basically sell a startup to afford a nice computer desk and chair, lol.

[fanpuns]

Maybe hot cash means something different, but it means stolen where I come from :)