Craig Squires
How nice would it be to reignite those childhood passions and hobbies, that you thought would shape and vitalise your life, before you found that you had to be responsible, start a family, buy a house and crawl your way down Struggle Street, before you can even think about finding time to escape the vortex of the Great Australian Dream. Love my job but certainly at least a year off, a very large motorhome, pack the family and travel this great country, creating a documentary of every aspect of the journey, whilst hopefully producing some award winning photographs as I go.
Paul Cederblad
Woh !!! I sense a the purchase of a houseboat com'n on, whether to stay in one spot or head for the next,, time is on my side to plan & establish the business I'd like to oversee & own, only so I don't go stir crazy as I'll need my mind to focus on something. woohooo !
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Would you work if you won the lotto?
If you won lotto do you think you’d bother working anymore?
It’s a Tuesday night like any other in your home. Perhaps the children are ignoring your sledgehammer-subtle warnings about their long past bedtime, or you’ve just cracked a bottle of red to watch the telly and eat dinner with. Ah ha, you remember! The Lotto results.
As you sit there, half-noticing what’s going on, you suddenly see a pattern emerging with the little pink and white slip in your hand. “Hey,” you think. “I’ve got a 23, 9 and 14 here…”
Suddenly, your world is taking on an hallucinatory shade of lurid purple and the sound of rolling balls. I’ve WON THE LOTTO!
That’s not the least of your latest set of problems. In the days and weeks ahead, you’ll be beset on all sides by relatives you weren’t aware of having, of continuing phone calls from your bank manager and the tax office. But there comes with this cashed-up time of confidence a little thought in the back of your mind… Should I keep working?
Let’s assume first off that you haven’t told your boss to place your job in the permanent darkness of you-know-where. You might still be clocking on every day, feeling that delight in knowing that you’re suddenly pretty well off, and smirking happily to yourself.
What would we do? If we had a job we loved, or were great at? We’d stick with it.
Sure, you may never have to worry about a bill or mortgage repayment ever again – if you’ve really lucked in, like to the tune of $30 million – but even so, that money is finite. Some people will give some to charity, pay their back taxes, kill the mortgage and interest in one go, buy a new car and take a holiday, only to find that the winnings are now much, much less than the amount they initially received on that oversized novelty cheque.
Keep the job, and keep the money rolling in. Boredom is usually the worst enemy of the newly rich, because if they feel they can live without the 9-5 grind, they’re suddenly sleeping in, eating out and paying other people to do the stuff that keeps the rest of us with our two feet on the ground.
That’s because getting rich via a lottery is different to inventing software or writing hit songs – these pursuits keep the money coming in. Just being temporarily wealthy isn’t enough to live on.
If you win big, celebrate big. But don’t quit your day job just yet.
Then again if you didn’t like your job, you could be sailing the world on your own yacht!