£150 million, still work…?
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alock said:
It might be an age thing. When younger I would have liked to have won a huge amount of money. It would have helped shaped my life and what I did with it.
Now I'm rapidly approaching 40, I have a home (i.e. not just a house) which I've invested a lot effort into. I have a family who are settled where they are. My wife and I each have a great group of friends. My children have lots of local friends and are getting on really well at school. It's great that my 9 year old daughter can walk down the road and visit friends by herself on a Sunday afternoon. I enjoy my career and am proud of what I have achieved in life. I am a genuinely valuable employee of a small local company.
Winning £150m would worry me. Not because I couldn't enjoy it, but because enjoying it might ruin what I already have and what I value in my life. Maybe your friend just doesn't want to risk losing what he already has and places value on.
You're assuming that by winning a large sum of money, you would be forced into changing what you like so much about your life and that it could not be improved.Now I'm rapidly approaching 40, I have a home (i.e. not just a house) which I've invested a lot effort into. I have a family who are settled where they are. My wife and I each have a great group of friends. My children have lots of local friends and are getting on really well at school. It's great that my 9 year old daughter can walk down the road and visit friends by herself on a Sunday afternoon. I enjoy my career and am proud of what I have achieved in life. I am a genuinely valuable employee of a small local company.
Winning £150m would worry me. Not because I couldn't enjoy it, but because enjoying it might ruin what I already have and what I value in my life. Maybe your friend just doesn't want to risk losing what he already has and places value on.
If you like your house and several £m would not source a better one; stay in it.
If you like where you live and several £m would not better it; stay there.
However, one should at least look at other options. With that kind of money, I would travel the world and settle where I liked the most. If that's where I live now, so be it.
When it comes to working, I would leave straight away. Company car in the car park, phone, keys and laptop all left in reception.
People don't realise how many doors would be opened for them with that kind of capital but it has to be controlled. It can break you if you can't get your head around it. These are the people who struggle and lose friends, family, etc.
If I won £150 million, the only reason I would work, would be too keep up the illusion that I never won it, so I could disapear a few weeks later after claiming to be one of three or so people to win a regular lottery rollover (So like £3 million each, which the wider public don't really give a s
t about). Not coming back into work the day after the Euromillions draw, then turning up in your La Ferarri to clear out your desk the following week, people raise some eyebrows, and people will put two and two together, and you'll find yourself plastered over the following mornings newspapers when someone sells them your name for a few quid.
I just can't comprehend, the whole "I'd be bored" thing, I just can't fathom out that you couldn't think of stuff to fill your time, rather than than fighting rush hour traffic 5 days a week, to sit a desk or whatever for 8 hours a day, madness. I could literally thing of dozens of thinsg to do instead of working, and not be bored, one minute of those.
t about). Not coming back into work the day after the Euromillions draw, then turning up in your La Ferarri to clear out your desk the following week, people raise some eyebrows, and people will put two and two together, and you'll find yourself plastered over the following mornings newspapers when someone sells them your name for a few quid.I just can't comprehend, the whole "I'd be bored" thing, I just can't fathom out that you couldn't think of stuff to fill your time, rather than than fighting rush hour traffic 5 days a week, to sit a desk or whatever for 8 hours a day, madness. I could literally thing of dozens of thinsg to do instead of working, and not be bored, one minute of those.
Edited by KingNothing on Thursday 23 October 14:58
KingNothing said:
If I won £150 million, the only reason I would work, would be too keep up the illusion that I never won it, so I could disapear a few weeks later after claiming to be one of three or so people to win a regular lottery rollover (So like £3 million each, which the wider public don't really give a st about). Not coming back into work the day after the Euromillions draw, then turning up in your La Ferarri to clear out your desk the following week, people raise some eyebrows, and people will put two and two together, and you'll find yourself plastered over the following mornings newspapers when someone sells them your name for a few quid.
I think, in reality, you'd struggle to continue working with £150m actually sitting in your bank.t about). Not coming back into work the day after the Euromillions draw, then turning up in your La Ferarri to clear out your desk the following week, people raise some eyebrows, and people will put two and two together, and you'll find yourself plastered over the following mornings newspapers when someone sells them your name for a few quid.Plus, there'd be a lot to sort out immediately with a win this large, in terms of where to put it all - so you'd need some time off anyhow.
Again, in reality, no-one would seriously assume you'd won the lottery because the chances are so infinitesimal. People bugger off without a word all the time. Just make something up; such as family trouble, etc. Are you really going to go back to pick up your favourite coffee mug? No.
Roll up in a Murcielago to hand your notice in person and you deserve everything you get!
I'd find a different kind of work.
Something I can pick and choose as I want. Maybe a bit of private charity work or maybe find a new hobby.
Someone once asked me if I'd go to a different pub if I won the lottery. I wouldn't change that. It may be the cheapest in the area but I think it's also a very good one!
Plus it's the nearest to my house and my friends go there.
Something I can pick and choose as I want. Maybe a bit of private charity work or maybe find a new hobby.
Someone once asked me if I'd go to a different pub if I won the lottery. I wouldn't change that. It may be the cheapest in the area but I think it's also a very good one!
Plus it's the nearest to my house and my friends go there.
Vocal Minority said:
As others have said:
I would still work, but not here and not this many hours.
Take the opportunity to devote more energy to clubs and things I am a member of, start a business mucking around with cars. That sort of thing.
Ah Mr Tony Fernandes. Good to meet you again! I would still work, but not here and not this many hours.
Take the opportunity to devote more energy to clubs and things I am a member of, start a business mucking around with cars. That sort of thing.
markiii said:
I'd be gone so fast I'd break the laws of physics, people like him don't; deserve to win that kind of money, utterly wasted on them
Incidentally I find this attitude equally incomprehensible. Why does he not deserve money (won not earned) because he does something different to you? Otispunkmeyer said:
Not a chance.
Get the house sorted. Rent it out and simply go travelling for an unknown amount of time. No real need to come back for a few years really...just meander through all the places I'd like to visit.
Really - "get the house sorted"? In what way - surely just lock the door and walk out. Or give it away. "rent it out"!!!!!!!Get the house sorted. Rent it out and simply go travelling for an unknown amount of time. No real need to come back for a few years really...just meander through all the places I'd like to visit.
longshot said:
OP. Are you sure he isn't just baiting you?
Surely no-one can be that unimaginative.
There is ofcourse the other option that he has just completely given up.
No, he was serious!Surely no-one can be that unimaginative.
There is ofcourse the other option that he has just completely given up.
He sometimes does surprise me with a few of his ideas and thoughts.
For example in one recent discussion he tells me he wants to rig his house lights up to an AP on his iphone so he can turn his lights on and off remotely. I asked him how this would be more beneficial than to simply flick a switch on the wall. He said flicking the stairs switch on and off is difficult if you’re on the ground floor as there is no light switch as it’s covered up, this AP would solve this issue.
Sometimes my head hurts talking to him. He’s an engineer and earns $40k.
Munter said:
Vocal Minority said:
As others have said:
I would still work, but not here and not this many hours.
Take the opportunity to devote more energy to clubs and things I am a member of, start a business mucking around with cars. That sort of thing.
Ah Mr Tony Fernandes. Good to meet you again! I would still work, but not here and not this many hours.
Take the opportunity to devote more energy to clubs and things I am a member of, start a business mucking around with cars. That sort of thing.
If I won any portion of Friday's Euro Millions jackpot, there's literally no chance in the world that I'd ever even consider or approach anything that resembled work ever again until my dying day!
People always tell you "you'd get bored" but I can't fathom how, with the endless possibilities that sort of money would bring, you could possibly get so bored that you'd consider actually working.
Surely, even in between the endless fun things you could do, sitting in your pants and watching TV would be preferable to actually getting out of bed at a pre-determined time and doing something any more taxing than the aforementioned watching TV in pants!?
People always tell you "you'd get bored" but I can't fathom how, with the endless possibilities that sort of money would bring, you could possibly get so bored that you'd consider actually working.
Surely, even in between the endless fun things you could do, sitting in your pants and watching TV would be preferable to actually getting out of bed at a pre-determined time and doing something any more taxing than the aforementioned watching TV in pants!?
Muzzer79 said:
KingNothing said:
If I won £150 million, the only reason I would work, would be too keep up the illusion that I never won it, so I could disapear a few weeks later after claiming to be one of three or so people to win a regular lottery rollover (So like £3 million each, which the wider public don't really give a st about). Not coming back into work the day after the Euromillions draw, then turning up in your La Ferarri to clear out your desk the following week, people raise some eyebrows, and people will put two and two together, and you'll find yourself plastered over the following mornings newspapers when someone sells them your name for a few quid.
I think, in reality, you'd struggle to continue working with £150m actually sitting in your bank.t about). Not coming back into work the day after the Euromillions draw, then turning up in your La Ferarri to clear out your desk the following week, people raise some eyebrows, and people will put two and two together, and you'll find yourself plastered over the following mornings newspapers when someone sells them your name for a few quid.Plus, there'd be a lot to sort out immediately with a win this large, in terms of where to put it all - so you'd need some time off anyhow.
Again, in reality, no-one would seriously assume you'd won the lottery because the chances are so infinitesimal. People bugger off without a word all the time. Just make something up; such as family trouble, etc. Are you really going to go back to pick up your favourite coffee mug? No.
Roll up in a Murcielago to hand your notice in person and you deserve everything you get!
It would work for me, means I could get a financial advisor on my side, who could run through the particulars for me, I've got two weeks holiday already booked from work at the start of November, so could use that time to formulate what I'm doing, then would come back and put my notice in, and either work it, but most likely just ask to leave then and there or simply buy my way out or just leave anyways. I suppose with my cover story is, you could apply it retrospectively, and tell everyone you actually won the lottery a month ago and have been sitting on it thinking about what you're going to do, then just leave.
Vocal Minority said:
markiii said:
I'd be gone so fast I'd break the laws of physics, people like him don't; deserve to win that kind of money, utterly wasted on them
Incidentally I find this attitude equally incomprehensible. Why does he not deserve money (won not earned) because he does something different to you? roboxm3 said:
If I won any portion of Friday's Euro Millions jackpot, there's literally no chance in the world that I'd ever even consider or approach anything that resembled work ever again until my dying day!
People always tell you "you'd get bored" but I can't fathom how, with the endless possibilities that sort of money would bring, you could possibly get so bored that you'd consider actually working.
Surely, even in between the endless fun things you could do, sitting in your pants and watching TV would be preferable to actually getting out of bed at a pre-determined time and doing something any more taxing than the aforementioned watching TV in pants!?
Amen brother!People always tell you "you'd get bored" but I can't fathom how, with the endless possibilities that sort of money would bring, you could possibly get so bored that you'd consider actually working.
Surely, even in between the endless fun things you could do, sitting in your pants and watching TV would be preferable to actually getting out of bed at a pre-determined time and doing something any more taxing than the aforementioned watching TV in pants!?
I'd work, but it wouldn't be "9 hours a day in an office". Never has been*.
If you're not earning, or doing anything to try to, you're spending and paying out costs of living anyway, plus have so much time to fill up if one is bereft of the inclination or desire to become moderately proficient at golf or fishing.
I'd travel a bit, read a lot and write (badly, and die unpublished) a bit, mostly. And fanny about with running restorations of a collection of old BMWs and handful of others. That'd likely be what ended up being what I'd spend my days and nights "working" at with nine figures in the bank and could turn into a business. Until there were only 7 figures left, anyway.
But we're all different.
*OK, it wouldn't be 11 hours a day, six days a week in a showroom either.
If you're not earning, or doing anything to try to, you're spending and paying out costs of living anyway, plus have so much time to fill up if one is bereft of the inclination or desire to become moderately proficient at golf or fishing.
I'd travel a bit, read a lot and write (badly, and die unpublished) a bit, mostly. And fanny about with running restorations of a collection of old BMWs and handful of others. That'd likely be what ended up being what I'd spend my days and nights "working" at with nine figures in the bank and could turn into a business. Until there were only 7 figures left, anyway.
But we're all different.
*OK, it wouldn't be 11 hours a day, six days a week in a showroom either.
As someone mentioned above though, where exactly would you put £150m. You can't just put it in one bank, that'd be crazy.
The time it would take to sort out the particulars of dividing that money and ensuring it's all properly invested and looked after would be like a job in itself.
You'd have to find one trustworthy financial advisor!!
The time it would take to sort out the particulars of dividing that money and ensuring it's all properly invested and looked after would be like a job in itself.
You'd have to find one trustworthy financial advisor!!
Silverbullet767 said:
Not a fking chance.
Houses on every continent with nice cars in each for starters. A significant chunk in savings and live day to day on the interest.
Hotels all the way abroad. I would buy Whitestaunton Manor though.king chance.Houses on every continent with nice cars in each for starters. A significant chunk in savings and live day to day on the interest.
Silverbullet767 said:
Follow the F1 around the world, visit everywhere I ever wanted to visit staying at the fanciest hotels.
This!An of course, this .....
Silverbullet767 said:
A tour of michelin star restaurants. Maybe even build my own racetrack.
And I need some new boxers!A car collection made up of my favourite from each decade - without duplicating manufacturers.
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