looking for the rare people...

[noborisno]

...who would continue to do the job they do now if they received a tax-free, obligation-free two million pounds.

If you had that money in your bank (in whatever circumstances make it believable for you) do you quit your job, just reduce your hours, or carry on doing exactly what you're doing now work-wise.

So, you have 2 million, do you:

1. Reduce your hours - you like your job but wouldn't do it all the time/as much as you do now to maintain an income
2. Walk right out - you're literally only there to make a living
3. You continue as you are - you love the work you do each day and enjoy every day of your life

3 - because I have shares in the company. Walking away would mean walking away from a similar amount of money, in 3 years.

I love my job, it is both intellectually stimulating and socially meaningful. I would still quit in a heartbeat if I had financial freedom. There are so many other ways I would like to feed my soul and I simply don’t have the time to do them all in one lifetime with the constraint of needing to earn a living.

We’re early 30s so I imagine 2mill cash wouldn’t see us through the rest of our lives to the standard you’d expect a millionaire to enjoy. I’d probably invest a mill and have a great portfolio of passive income. I’d do a year off with the kids travelling around the world probably. And sit on the rest. So yes I’d keep working too as I’d need options for the future! Plus it’s interesting and nice to have the routine.

It's not enough to not work unless you're older and already financially set up with house, decent pension etc.

Once we'd bought a house and got ourselves straight, we'd live very well but we'd have to work. I probably wouldn't do the exact job I do. I'd either temp and work part year or go for something less pressured.

I would stay in my job because I enjoy it, but I would reduce my hours considerably, and I would give less of a shit about it generally, knowing if I got fired it wouldn't be a big deal. I often think I do enjoy my job on the whole, but know that I have to keep my job in order to pay my mortgage and bills and that gives me extra stress which would disappear with £2m in my bank account!

I’d reduce my hours to 2.5 days a week and would be loving life.

Wow. Now I really, really want 2 million pounds.

Actually I’ve changed my mind. I’d use £500k to buy a gorgeous house outright, keep working full time, then retire at 50. #daydreams

I’d buy a house with land in the country and open a small livery yard. I’d still do my job part time, but I’d be able to not stress so much about how many hour I have to do to keep afloat as a single disabled parent with kids who realistically will always live with me.

Number one preferred due to also building my eBay business, but when the extra staff is needed then number 3

I'd stay on as I'm part time and I love the work and my employers. I might drop a day and work a 3 day week instead of my current 4 day week. I'd also request to be term time only so that I can travel more in the holidays.

I'd work my notice and be gone.

Option 2. I would be gone. In fact, I would leave my job for half a million if truth be told 🤣

Still work, I like my job and only work part time

I'd reduce my hours but I love my job (and own part of the business), so I'd miss not doing it.

I bloody love my job so I'd stay. But I'd negotiate term-time only, plus pro rata leave in term time, so I could go on more holidays

I'd continue. I dont really work for the money and I enjoy my job. But then I work 3 days a week term time only and it fits in with the family. Dh might go part time. Id drive a nicer car and carry more expensive bags and go on nicer holidays.

Reduce my hours. I love my job but it does knacker me out.

I’m a teacher at a special school. I love the job but not all of the stress that comes with it. I don’t think I’d quit completely, I adore my students and have close friends at work but I’d probably want to be a TA instead of a teacher and I’d definitely reduce my days from full-time.

3 because of the people who need me to be still doing it, but I'd take £750 max for me and mine and use the other 1,250,000. of it to set up charities to help others.

2 in a heartbeat but I'm 60 work as a midwife loved the job but gotten more stressful year on year.
I could help my family massively with that money. You can only dream.

2, definitely. I'd miss my immediate team and managers though, they've always been good to work with.

I've got loads to do outside work, I wouldn't be bored or sitting around doing nothing.

Two. 2 million sounds a lot and it is, but if you figure that you have another 40-50 years to live, that actually would only get you 40k a year if you retired completely. Considering the rate of inflation and rising costs that amount would dwindle in value significantly in 20-30 years time and you'd get less and less for it every year. Therefore, I'd be surprised if anyone could just retire on that amount along if they are still relatively young. (Btw- I'm not saying its not a lot of money- it IS)

I’d reduce my hours. I enjoy my work, it’s rewarding (public sector so feeling of helping people) and also intellectually stimulating. But I’d like a bit more time to pursue my other interests.

1. I like @Truhamboys approach to working this out per year. This is around £50k for me which is more than my current annual net take home but I expect to earn at least another 20-30k pa in the next few years, which will would push my earned income above this. So the £2m is less than my lifetime earning potential and what I expect to be a reasonable public sector pension. If I had both the £2m and 70% of my current earnings I would be very comfortable indeed

I like my job and find it very fulfilling but it is exhausting. I would love to do it 3 days per week

No because someone else who needs money could have my job. It'd be wrong to keep on working and receiving money from an employer when I was so rich I wouldn't need to work again