If you won the lottery would you (still) work?

I'm talking like £161m, would you still go to college, university and get a job etc and work up until 30 or around 55?

Or would you travel, buy mansions, invest, do things you never could before and use the money to it's full extent?

For me it's definitely the latter, I don't see the point in having £161m and still working, whether you want an ambition or not, I couldn't give a shit what people think as they'd be jealous regardless of if I worked or not, I'd be quite happy having real friends and a wife and kids and go travelling, give them the best education and never need to earn a penny for the rest of my life.

Well, you're talking about investment of money, that's kind of a job isn't it? Playing the markets, property etc. Doesn't have to be a 9-5 office job.

But to answer the question, I think I'd be doing something. Not sure what line of work it would be, but I wouldn't want to just party, travel and sit on my arse 'til I died.

I'd finish Uni, but never work a proper job.

Probably not a "proper job" like a shit 9 till 5 sort of thing.

I'd set up and run my own very successful business.

You'd want to be doing something wouldn't you, obviously not an office job or manual labor trying to live an average working class life, that would be silly. But if i did nothing other than buying a big house, tavelling and partying for the rest of my life, i'd get very bored eventually.

Whats the point in having eveything given to you and not actually acheving anything in your life? That would be kinda lame.

Of course. I'd be the chairman of Koloale FC.

no

I'd finish uni for sure, then.. take a year off, and see what I want to do

Of course. I'd stay at college, go to Uni, then travel and shit. I'd start my own business or get a place on the Board at Forest.


It'd be boring just sitting on your arse all day. Bill Gates still works, and £161 Million is nothing to him...

I'd complete University then go back and do it again, perhaps I would continually do this,, devote my life to becoming as intelligent and knowledgeable as I can be.

I would work because I'm quite unimaginative.

JMB_94 wrote:You'd want to be doing something wouldn't you, obviously not an office job or manual labor trying to live an average working class life, that would be silly. But if i did nothing other than buying a big house, tavelling and partying for the rest of my life, i'd get very bored eventually.

Whats the point in having eveything given to you and not actually acheving anything in your life? That would be kinda lame.

I don't think i'd care about achieving something, once you die you go anyway so it isn't like you can look back on your achievements.

I'd try to live a normal life most likely. Wouldn't wanna come across as a snob.

I'd finish school and stuff, I'd try and live normally and get friends who like me for me, not my money...

Yes, I'd become so bored otherwise.

I'd only work doing a job I loved though, and I'd try to live a normal life but just upgrade it a significant amount.

I'd definitely finish my apprenticeship. Would probably bribe my assessors a fair bit though to get top marks.

i would do something to keep me active

contrary to what most people into this forum would do with that money, just sit around and play games

maybe i would buy a jet or somethign and get pilot liscence. do something productive instead of sit around mansion all day eating sausage and watching wrestling on tv like some people on here would do probably

mauro=beast wrote:i would do something to keep me active

contrary to what most people into this forum would do with that money, just sit around and play games

maybe i would buy a jet or somethign and get pilot liscence. do something productive instead of sit around mansion all day eating sausage and watching wrestling on tv like some people on here would do probably

Maybe you could get yourself some English lessons while you're at it.

I wouldn't.

I'd go around the world watching football, partying in the best cities and hotspots around the world.

I'd probably end up dead at 35 from a cocktail of drugs and alcohol or something.

Nah, I'd live off the interest.

Chris wrote:I wouldn't.

I'd go around the world watching football, partying in the best cities and hotspots around the world.

I'd probably end up dead at 35 from a cocktail of drugs and alcohol or something.

You'd buy 50 million protein shakes.

Since I'm interested in Literature I'd probably spend a lot of my time writing novels and poems. It would be stress free since I'd have enough money to last a lifetime considering all the interest I'd accumalate.

I definitely wouldn't go into a field in which I couldn't have my own schedule though.

It would depend.
If I didn't work, I would be terribly bored because I'd assume all my mates would be at work, so I couldn't do much - I'd probably work part time or if I'd worked my way up before winning the lottery, so say I started out as a reporter then became the editor of Vogue or something, I'd probably still stay working tbh.

Jess wrote:It would depend.
If I didn't work, I would be terribly bored because I'd assume all my mates would be at work, so I couldn't do much - I'd probably work part time or if I'd worked my way up before winning the lottery, so say I started out as a reporter then became the editor of Vogue or something, I'd probably still stay working tbh.

Give all your mates shitloads of money so they don't have to work for a few years.

You can't chuck a load of money at people though - not everyone would be happy/feel comfortable with that

Theoretically they wouldn't, offer them the cash and they'll quickly change their tune though. If they don't, let them work and go off and get shitfaced somewhere foreign and hot with your mates who want to have a good time.

How the fuck can you be bored with £161m?

And I've never read so much shit in my life 'Oh well it depends really' 'Yeah think I'd finish Uni first' haha! Fuck off The books and paper would be thrown straight out the window and you'd never look back.

Like I said before, I would use the money to help me get my dream job.

Might even use it to re-kick start my (rather short lived) tennis career or maybe get into F1/Touring Cars.

You realise your friends would change? I think I'd be more in the company of Pedro, the multi-millionaire Spanish business man, we'd go shopping in Oxford Street every day.

Not all your friends would change...

I don't think I'd tell my friends, there'd be an expectation that I'd shower them with wealth, which would be more trouble than it was worth. I reckon I'd just create a relative who'd just died leaving my family a fair bit of money, I certainly wouldn't disclose that I was multi-millionaire.