by Elaine Sihera

Created on: April 25, 2008

Would you quit your JOB in you won millions in lottery?

Yes, there are a number of reasons why I would quit my job if I won the lottery, and most of them are practical and necessary. The main reason for quitting my job is that having won the money, why would I wish to hold on to a job that someone else could then have? That's rather selfish. Secondly, no matter how one might pretend that winning the lottery won't make a difference to one's life, it will, as night follows day, no matter how 'normal' one will try to live after the win. Other people will make sure one has to change.

To begin with, winning the lottery is a major gift and should be appreciated. Many people tend to suffer from guilt after winning big sums by hardly living any differently and fearing that they might appear 'flash' or 'stuck-up' to their friends and neighbours. But the best thing one can do with such good fortunes is to give thanks, donate some of it to others, pamper relatives and close friends, then move away from the district to somewhere where one is not known and one can start a new life in privacy. That's the only way one would be able to lead any kind of normal existence, living among people with money too who do not know how you got yours and how much you have.

That action is important because money causes envy and jealousy. No matter how people try to ignore it, or pretend not to notice someone else's good fortune, when it happens to a close friend or neighbour, all sorts of psychological effects come into being. Friends begin to worry that you might think they are now interested in your money; neighbours start watching how you are going to deal with it, and whether you will get above yourself and snooty, how much you will spend, whether you will be mean or generous, what you will give away and how you will deal with it. No matter how much you might try to act as you have always done before, having millions in your bank which other people know about is guaranteed to change their attitude towards you when they have so little. It's human nature if you are struggling and your relative just came into money. Difficult to know how to treat them.

So the best thing is always to give up the job within a week, without too much fuss, gather friends and families around you for drinks and presents, and get the hell out of there to a new life of comfort and fulfilling your dreams! To give thanks for your windfall by making the most of it.

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