If you win the lottery tomorrow...

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Would you quit work?
I've bought a ticket for the euro millions tomorrow. Yes, I know there's pretty much no chance of winning anything, but it's just a bit of fun.
If I were to win, I would work my notice, less annual leave, because I wouldn't want to dump anyone in it, but then I'd be gone.
I'm not bothered about "stuff" but I would love the security it would give me, dh and my children.

Does anyone know how long it takes to get the money into your account

yeh, I know, like it could ever matter. But one may as well dream in detail

Its about 4 weeks, that would seem like an eternity.

I’d maybe go part time 😂 quite like my job and dh loves his, has built up his business and work fits in around his job and not the other way round, he’s said he never wants to retire!
I think at 40 I’d need some routine and structure in my life and work provides that. So I’d like to think I’d carry on working but less so I still have plenty of time to pursue my other interests. We still have a school aged dc so wouldn’t just be able to bugger off whenever we want to anyway.

Me too!

Travel! I’d be booking a February half term trip straight away. I would work my notice, I’m on a week 3 of a 12 week notice currently. I think I’d even start my new job but I’d try to negotiate part time.

id take it easy for a while but I’d like to set up a school for kids who struggle with mainstream due to trauma. There are so few places for girls in particular.

Id also go to all the London shows, eat out, wear beautiful clothes..

Absolutely 100% would never step foot in my workplace ever again. Gone with immediate effect🤣

youre right @TheInebriati, four weeks does sound like an eternity.

though I think that knowing I no longer needed the job might make me better at it those last 4 weeks, oddly enough. I’d be more confident

I'd go to work the next day, and not tell anyone about my win. Instead of playing my usual fake professional role, I'd say exactly what I was thinking, and see how long it took me to be escorted off the premises.

I'd be gone! At rocket speed! And then I'd start my own business in something I've always wanted to do. Tomorrow.

Hope I win. But if I don't, hope you win OP!!!

Good luck! 🤞

Firstly, £2m to my brother and his wife, £2m to BIL and SIL. £2m to step sister and husband. £1m each to 6 nephews and nieces.

I like where I live but would have someone in to completely redecorate and refurbish and then landscape the garden. Would probably employ someone to plan and cook healthy meals. Oh, and a personal trainer to lick me into shape.

Oh, and I would probably pay for the new roof our local social club needs.

No, I really love my job. I would pay off the mortgage and take brilliant holidays and lots of designer bags.

I need to get a ticket too, I really need out!!

Definitely quit but work my notice period - I have about 3 weeks annual leave accrued so I would only work one week of my notice - how generous of me!
i would then move to a bigger house so the cat could have her own conservatory with cat shelves to climb and then spend my time volunteering (ideally with cats protection or rspca) and doing my hobbies!

We hardly ever do the lottery but when we do I have a list of things I am going to do with the money.
Help animals in need
Contribute to local wildlife trust
Give small local charities I think do great jobs a real boost each
Give PIL some
Put some away for DC and our two nieces
Pay off mortgages of our two godchildren and their parents (they are brother and sister so have the same parents)
Buy a house for holidays in UK- I change my mind about where
Swop our house for something much bigger (Georgian) near Hexham/Corbridge with some land or up on the coast near Alnmouth/Bamburgh
DH would want to do something to help some local children have a better start and get on in life
We would give up work but we would both want to volunteer at things

We wouldn't tell anyone except PIL and our best friends (whose children we are godparents to)

The only thing left at my desk would be tumbleweed. I’m outta there and officially retired 👋🏼

I would buy me a house and get divorced immediately.

Trying to see a way out atm and I'm at that ridiculous point of earning too much for any extra help but not enough to rent on my own with 3 kids. (Live in SE) have equity in my house but also a lot of debt to pay.

Then I'd book a fab holiday for me and my girls!

If I won massively eg 70 million I would swan into work, give some of my selected colleagues a hefty cheque on the basis that they walked out there and then. Then laugh, Machiavelli-like, at the chaos I had caused to the employers who have royally fucked my husband over.
and I would never darken their doors again.

i would maybe open a poncy cafe selling gorgeous cakes and fripperies, I might call it Hygge Tygge. I wouldn't do any of the hard work though. Just make nice cakes and swan around. I used to be a pastry chef and I'd like to just be able to make cake and not worry about earnings.

@2025mustbebetter you're better off getting divorced with a financial break settlement agreed before you even buy a ticket. If you win while still married and then divorce, you'll lose 50% automatically to your ex.

I'd quit my job in a cold minute. Stay local as DD loves her school. But we'd travel extensively, I'd write the books I've always wanted to write, and we'd do it all in the house I'd buy for us overlooking the sea, with the pets we've always wanted to get.

Probably give some pots to a select few and endow a scholarship at my old uni, but essentially I'd cease to worry about money, which would allow me to live in the moment more.

I'd pull my DC out of school & put them in private.

I'd buy them all flats & cars as required.

Pay off my mortgage. Do up the house.

Buy a holiday home. Do it up.

Get a new car.

Take the kids to Disney world & stay in the animal kingdom lodges.

Go on a Caribbean cruise.

Depends on how big the win was! I have a list on my phone of things I’d doing I won the lottery - can you tell I’ve thought about this a lot!
I would give up work. I’d book a holiday somewhere hot and relaxing to plan how I was going to spend my money. Who’d I like to help and who I definitely wouldn’t want to help!
I’ve seen a couple of perfect houses already. Just need that win

I would go even more part time than now and, frankly, pay for another member of staff to do the bits of my job I hate (I work for a small charity). Then I would rest a lot, until I’m recovered properly from current burnout. Buy a slightly bigger house, and plan the life I want: writing, speaking, arting, enjoying time with people I care about. Make sure I have really good income/pension provision, then start giving the rest away.

Absolutely

In a heartbeat! Then after DS’s GCSEs we’d be outta here and moving to a sunny country. Perhaps I’d buy a house in the Lake District for coming back to to visit family.

No. I don’t have the kind of job you can just quit but I’d start planning my exit.