Out of curiosity, can you name any such activities? The first thing I thought of was donating your organs (whichever ones were healthy enough to donate). Especially if you could arrange to have them all taken at once when you die, and then put the money into a college fund for your kids or whatever.
To be honest, if I’d know one of my parent’s kidneys had gone into paying for my chemistry class, I probably would have attended more.
For “high paying” I guess it depends on how much your earning potential at your current job is. Off the top of my head, there’s a few dangerous but very high-paying blue collar jobs—Crab fisherman, oil rig worker, and the like. Working with carcinogens and radiation is also a go, as mentioned elsewhere, though I’m not sure about compensation there. For “social good”, Terminally ill patients are at least eligible to volunteer to test drugs for their particular illness.
I’m still in the “spend time with your loved ones and help them come to terms with it” camp though.
Out of curiosity, can you name any such activities? The first thing I thought of was donating your organs (whichever ones were healthy enough to donate). Especially if you could arrange to have them all taken at once when you die, and then put the money into a college fund for your kids or whatever.
To be honest, if I’d know one of my parent’s kidneys had gone into paying for my chemistry class, I probably would have attended more.
For “high paying” I guess it depends on how much your earning potential at your current job is. Off the top of my head, there’s a few dangerous but very high-paying blue collar jobs—Crab fisherman, oil rig worker, and the like. Working with carcinogens and radiation is also a go, as mentioned elsewhere, though I’m not sure about compensation there. For “social good”, Terminally ill patients are at least eligible to volunteer to test drugs for their particular illness.
I’m still in the “spend time with your loved ones and help them come to terms with it” camp though.