What lottery jackpot prize would make you give up your job and retire? [POLL]
This young Conception Bay South couple along with their parents quit work after winning a $30-million Lotto Max prize.
A growing trend these days is for lottery winners to stay at their jobs. Winners give their reasons ranging from avoiding boredom to keeping in contact with their workmates.
For many workers, their job is more than a way to produce income - it's a way of life that they would miss.
But money sometimes talks louder. So what prize amount would make you give up your job? How much would it take to shoehorn you into permanent retirement?
The stories you hear about big money winners getting bored after 6 months of enforced leisure, missing the position and contacts they had - and then returning to work?
It's all true.
Nicky Cusack won £2.5 Million and returned to work later that year, stacking shelves at a UK supermarket. PHOTO: SWNS
But if you think $1 million is not enough, what amount is?
Some financial advisors say $10 million is the minimum for retiring happy for the rest of your life, but most of us could exist on $5 million if we really tightened our belts a little.
Luke Pittard went back to work at McDonalds 18 months after winning £1.3 million. “There's only so much relaxing you can do," said the affable Welsh-born winner.
Within 3 hours of learning that he'd won the Atlantic Lottery $1 Million jackpot, Nova Scotia truck driver Bruce Osmond had quit his job and sold his truck.
Kelsey Zachow won $66 million a Mega Millions lottery jackpot - then went back to work. She was happily told by her boss to leave!
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