# Lottery Winner Blows £9.7 Million, Wants Job as Trashman Back

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 20, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-winner-blows-9-7-million-wants-job-as-trashman-back/540113 "2010-05-20T10:14:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-winner-blows-9-7-million-wants-job-as-trashman-back/540113/61 "2010-05-25T15:11:34Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> When I win the lottery, I’ll come back to this thread and explain how I managed to cope with my endless piles of money.

Would you? Hey, that’d be great. Thanks! And when you do, please, just remember who your friends are on the Dope.

:: grins warmly, chuckles, winks ::

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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-winner-blows-9-7-million-wants-job-as-trashman-back/540113/62 "2010-05-25T15:11:51Z")

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I may well have blown the money at 17, but at 19 it just so happened all my friends were pretty smart, thrifty types who would have ganged up on me to prevent me doing something stupid. Of course, we weren’t into drugs either. Most of us were into martial arts, so I suppose I’d have bought a nice big deluxe dojo or something, but not million dollar one.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-winner-blows-9-7-million-wants-job-as-trashman-back/540113/63 "2010-05-25T21:36:15Z")

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> [@Maiira](#):
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> And I probably wouldn’t even quit my job. Sure, it’s not the best-paying gig in the world, but I actually like it, and I’d have to do _something_ with my time.

See, I’ll never understand this mentality at all. I mean, I quite enjoy my job, but there are countless things I would _rather_ be doing with my time if I didn’t have to earn money, and had the ready cash to go and do them.

The alternative to working is not sitting on the sofa watching daytime TV.

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