£150 million, still work…?

[knitware]

I’m having a debate at work and it’s a debate about what would you do if you won £150 million, his response amazed and filled me despair due to his lack of imagination.

He said if he won the jackpot he would still work as he might get bored and his wife would want to open a cake shop.
Why am I angry about his lack of imagination or his understanding at what that sort of money could give to him? He wants a job with all that cash? He couldnt see how working 9 hours a day in an office whilst having the means to not have to do that was, to me, fking stupid.

I tried to explain to him that boredom is a worry as his experience of life up to now is bound by time and financial constraints, if those were removed endless possibilities are there. Forgetting the usual property, car and travelling purchases so how about learning to fly, buy a helicopter, commission a boat and sail the world. Have a family? Well how about build a house, develop a foundation open a zoo.

I too am bound by the finance and time constriction and perhaps imagination but if I won £150 million I wouldn’t be bored and I’d get imaginative.

[vixen1700]

Not a chance.

The whole joy would be not having to work for anybody again.

[Mr Roper]

It's up to him.

[Mastiff]

Mr Roper said:

It's up to him.

Agreed - but that doesn't mean that he isn't a complete muppet who shouldn't win it in the first place!

[BoRED S2upid]

I'd still work ... Until the cheque cleared and then play brewsters millions for the rest of my life. What would £150mill make in interest per day?

[s p a c e m a n]

£150m and still work? I'd keep myself busy working with/funding local charities, but I wouldn't have a proper job.

[zoom star]

I own my own business,I would just walk out the door, tell the first person I see it's theirs...
Be looking for a farm / lot of countryside,that very day....

[Otispunkmeyer]

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.

[Munter]

s p a c e m a n said:

£150m and still work? I'd keep myself busy working with/funding local charities, but I wouldn't have a proper job.

I think that's it. I'd still work. In that I'd have to get up in the morning to get on with performing a role in an organisation. But I'd choose the role and have plenty of holiday and minions to do the heavy lifting.

[HTP99]

I'd travel the world and see and do things I have always wanted to see and do, however there would come a point where you would just want to be at home and you had done everything so I think when it came to that stage I would probably need some sort of work to give me something to plan my days for and to give me a bit of purpose and structure to my life.

[Yamahadivvyrider]

I'd still work but only voluntary.they are redoing the old canal local yo me so I would probably do that

[Yamahadivvyrider]

I'd still work but only voluntary.they are redoing the old canal local yo me so I would probably do that

[Sump]

I'd just carry on with my life.

[Munter]

Yamahadivvyrider said:

I'd still work but only voluntary.they are redoing the old canal local yo me so I would probably do that

If it needs redoing that often I can see why they need the help.

[Dog Star]

First thing I'd be doing is calling up Roscosmos or whoever it is and organising my trip to the ISS (incidentally what happened to Sarah Brightman going there?)

Next thing I'd be doing is calling up Sarah Brightman who I would employ to be at my beck and call in a little French maid outfit.

But the other thing I would do is to get an atlas and chuck a dart. Wherever the dart struck I'd pick the nearest town and go there and see it. I'd keep doing it. (I do a similar thing now with google streetview).

[Muzzer79]

The lack of imagination on a hypothetical lottery win is a real window into someone's personality.

The people I see who claim that in the event of a big win, they'd carry on with their normal job boggles the mind.
You have £150m in the bank and you'd still sit at that desk all day?? Simpletons.

It's especially prevalent with, ahem, lower intelligence folk.

One chap I spoke to said that he'd come in to work the following week and give each of his co-workers £50k each just so they would all collectively tell their manager to Fu*k off and walk out.
He was dead serious. £1m of his win 'invested' in this idea, just for that one moment, which would have no real effect anyway.

These people shouldn't be allowed to play...

[alock]

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.

[Silverbullet767]

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.

Follow the F1 around the world, visit everywhere I ever wanted to visit staying at the fanciest hotels. A tour of michelin star restaurants. Maybe even build my own racetrack. Anything but working anyway. It would take a long time for me to get bored!

[longshot]

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.

[Jasandjules]

I would carry on working - of course I would have fewer clients, but still. It would also enable me to undertake far more pro bono cases.

That said, I'd still have a mansion, loads of land and a large collection of cars to play with.