If you won the lottery, would you still work?

[LowestEbb]

Hypothetical sadly, but just musing with my colleagues.
If you won the lottery, I'm talking mega multiple millions, would you still work?

For me, police officer, I think I would do what I want for the first year, travel etc, and then come back and be a Special Constable (volunteer but with the same powers). That way I'd still feel my training etc hasn't been for nothing and I do love my job, so would be bored soon without it I think.

I’d do my side hustle, which is creatively but not financially fulfilling, and quit my job for sure. Time would be spent in the garden, cooking, big walks, reading, said side hustle, with DD, decorating. Plenty of things I’d rather be doing than my office job which is solely to keep the wolf from the door.

No way. Work is a blight on my life.

@RecipeStealingBitch it is possible to do part time and as of recent years you can get funding much easier too. It may be worth re visiting if you love the idea of it!

Yes but I'd be the boss

Fuck no.
I would be much too busy going on multiple holidays, moving to Orkney and starting every crafty whim that entered my mind.
I’m a nurse and there’s no chance I would choose dealing with leg ulcers day in day out over Greek island hopping.

In fact I'd probably work a lot more, but so less of the grunt work. If I could afford a nanny it would enable me to structure my life completely differently.

id quit the minute the money hit my bank account

Hell to the no!

I would spend time travelling and doing volunteer work.

Absolutely not. I would quit working if I won any more than 2.5 million. That would pay my mortgage off and I could pay myself an equivalent cash sum of my wage less mortgage payments for 60 years. The capital could be invested and would pay for a very nice annual holiday abroad, getting kids on property ladder etc. It would change our lives without changing our lives IYSWIM

Yes definitely. But probably PT rather than FT.

Not on your life. I'd go in, wait until something or someone upset me (on current reckoning about 5 minutes after I got in) and then sweep out telling them I thought they were all tossers and they could stick their job.

You can tell I've given this some thought........

I would try my hands at several other professions, using my wealth to create a network of opportunities. I'd probably set up my own business too, just to have a go.

😂😂😂😂 No.

I tucking hate my job. It’s dull, I have to work with a mad woman, it exhausts me. No. I shall run very fast in the opposite direction.

@NeedWineNow

Not on your life. I'd go in, wait until something or someone upset me (on current reckoning about 5 minutes after I got in) and then sweep out telling them I thought they were all tossers and they could stick their job.

You can tell I've given this some thought........

😂😂 I've had similar thoughts...

Well someone in the UK has won the euro lottery. Just under 40 mil .

I would do something, as I have the attention span of a tangerine and am easily bored, and would probably get a bit frustrated after a couple of months.

I love my job, but I have a lot of responsibility and it can be stressful. I'd like something I could do on a more part-time basis, with a comparable amount of responsibility and stimulation, but less stress - maybe non-exec director for an NGO or similar.

Would I fuck

Fuck no.

I wouldnt volunteer either. I'd very easily find things to occupy myself.

I'd also get into ethical investments in a bigger way - green energy, biotech start-ups, innovative agribusiness, that kind of thing.

I'd get focus on studying/get more qualifications, in the hopes of being able to pursue my dream job.

*I'd get focus on

Yes, but two days, even shorter hours.

No. Quite apart from anything else I'd feel bad taking a job somebody else needed.

Maybe, possibly charity work.

@HelloCanYouHearMe

Fuck no.

I wouldnt volunteer either. I'd very easily find things to occupy myself.

exactly this id be a lady of leisure travelling about and having fun many things id love to do/see/buy simply just cos