If you won the lottery, say.. 10 million. Would you keep working?

[Jessforless]

A colleague said to me today that the true test of if you like your job is the lottery test, and apparently, this proves most people hate their jobs.

If you won a life changing amount, would you keep your job… if you truly hate your job, you wouldn’t even work your notice.

I think I would go crazy with nothing to do but would like to open a luxury dog hotel 😂 but in terms of my actual job, I would absolutely leave but really like the people so like to think I would work my notice.

How about you?

I like my current job, and my current colleagues, so I think I'd probably stick with it for a while. I don't think I'd bother moving on to whatever my next career move would be though. Life's too full of other interesting things to do, to spend it staring at a computer screen if you don't have to.

I’d carry on in my job, but with a much better wardrobe and do the things I believe in/ be a lot more edgy in how I did things safe in the knowledge that if they fired me I wouldn’t care. I think the zero fucks energy would be pretty powerful.

I know! Crazy.

I could eek out 500k

I do enjoy my job, but I also have several other jobs/side hustles to help pay the bills. I think I’d ditch the side hustles to free up time and headspace straight away. Keep my job for the time being whilst the magnitude of a mega win like that settled down and then think about it. I’d probably ask to go down to 3 days a week but it would keep the social connections and I like my job!

Yes I would keep working because I absolutely love my job. I would drop to 4 days though.

If you’d consider an income of £500,000 a year to be ‘miserly’ you probably don’t need £10M in the first place!

I’d definitely keep my job but do a four day week.

Is there nothing in between loving your job so much you’d do it with 10m in the bank and hating it?

I enjoy my job. I’m also planning to retire early in 5y and I’ll enjoy that too. I’d be long gone with £10m.

2 days a week I would. Most people are rubbish at consistently creating both purpose and structure. Work has that in-built so makes sense to keep going. Plus for some people working keeps them socially, mentally or physically active. All these things are important.

Or I'd work FT for half the year and travel for the other half. My work is the sort where there is often a vacant position.

I love my work albeit only 2 days a week. I would do it until I could pass it over to someone more junior on my team as its a great job to have and they deserve the chance to be promoted to it. So it would take a while to train them in all aspects but I would feel its the right thing to do.

If I'm that wealthy, I'd probably stick around as a volunteer mentor on it too.

I think it's important to fill your days but that can be in lots of different ways.

100% would leave and not work my notice!

Hah! I’d be out that door so fast! There’s so much to do other than work

Not a chance.

Well I'm a SAHP so I might hire a Nanny lol.

DH would quit, but I think with a view to taking time out and going back. I'd give serious thought to what I wanted to do, knowing I could afford childcare.

Currently volunteer and I'd absolutely continue that

I think most people just think they like their job, I was like this too until I took a year off and realised work was overrated! I enjoy my work, and if I work with good people I enjoy the social aspect of working the most. But yeah, by choice ... don't think so, much more interesting things to do in life I think! If I had the financial freedom, I might still work in some capacity but definitely part time and only doing something fulfilling that actually contributes to the bigger picture

No.

I would but only because I already work two days anyway and I quite enjoy my job. It’s minimal stress and I work in the film industry so there’s a LOT of perks that come with it.

If you asked this question before I started this job then no, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have even said I’m leaving, they’d just never see me again

Nope, I absolutely would not keep doing my current job. Doesn’t mean I’d do nothing, but I would very happily retire now (mid 50s) and really enjoy life.
If they needed me for a bit of supply/listening to readers/whatever then I’d help. But only ad hoc. Need to start gambling I guess.

Certainly not in my current role. We’d run a little bookshop, I reckon, and open whenever we felt like it. Like Black Books but with less squalor and swearing.

You'd not see me for dust. I'd still do something, volunteer at the local cat rescue or something. Or I'd spend some time deciding what I'd love to do and have a go at setting up my own business.

Nope. I’d work my notice, and that would be the lot.
I’d definitely study something I was interested in, possibly retrain in the future. But I’d make 10 million work. FFS, how hard can that be? 😂

Fuck no. I'd buy a rather luxury campervan and start exploring

No. I would hand in my notice and work the three months they would hold me to. I'd then negotiate a consultancy contract if they wanted one where I'd do bits and pieces as I chose. I'd then pursue what I really want to do (strategy consulting for small charities and social enterprises) but without the financial worry of making it pay adequately. I know exactly what it is but can't afford it right now.

You'd need more than £10 million for the rest of your life. Unless you were really miserly/careful with it.
Don't talk daft!

I would definitely quit my job! I'd have to work my notice though because I work in a pub and I don't want to get barred 😂

I'd be off like a shot. Sayonara suckers....😁

What I'd do with my time, god knows.