# If you won the lottery, would you work?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-won-the-lottery-would-you-work/336834>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 22, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-won-the-lottery-would-you-work/336834 "2005-12-22T18:43:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-won-the-lottery-would-you-work/336834/61 "2005-12-23T22:31:48Z")

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If I had enough income to quit, I certainly wouldn’t be working _here_ anymore but I might work somewhere. Being a substitute teacher might be nice.

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**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-won-the-lottery-would-you-work/336834/62 "2005-12-24T03:28:55Z")

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If I won a mere $10M or so I’d stay until I was sure that I could afford health insurance **and** a good standard of living from my investments.

I’ve got a family medical history chock-full of cancer and heart disease. My wife’s been free of cancer for a mere 3 years. It’s possible that I might have to work part-time at a job that offers full-time benefits, taking their top tier of health care and not caring if that left me with $1/week takehome.

$ 50M or better, and I’d be off like a shot!

Curiously, I might stay on a while at my part-time job delivering bi-weekly publications to 140 diverse locations; just to stay in contact with real people.

My “real job” consists of the Vampire Shift in a university steam/ AC plant where I interact with a mere handful of people–and the same people every night. If I did any work at all after winning enough to pay for good insurance , it would be the 4-day-per-month day job for sure.

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-won-the-lottery-would-you-work/336834/63 "2005-12-24T05:53:52Z")

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> [@Cluricaun](#):
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> Where there were blowhard managers, I’d be there deriding them in front of the troops. Where there are insufferable customers, I’d be right back in their faces. Wherever you find the fodder of oppression and groups of hard working, intelligent but yet powerless employees, I’ll be there.

Hey Tom! Tom Jode! Where you been, man? I haven’t seen you since California.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-won-the-lottery-would-you-work/336834/64 "2005-12-24T15:21:05Z")

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> [@John Carter of Mars](#):
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> Hey Tom! Tom Jode! Where you been, man? I haven’t seen you since California.

Look man, Rage Against The Machine wrote a song about me, and I had to lay real low for a while until the embarrassment blew over. 😉

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