If you won $1 million, but had to keep working at anything you wished - what would you be doing?

[Anonymous]

So if you're in a stressful job and you had this opportunity to not be working for the money, but you still had to work as a requirement of winning the $1Mil, what would you do instead?

I must be depressed b/c I can't think of anything! I'm reading a career revamp book and read this question last night - - still can't quite answer it. The things I enjoy are (sadly) shopping (retail therapy, I know!) and travel. Which makes me curious what the first things other people think of are... what are the first couple of things that come to mind?

[Anonymous]

I'd make my side job my full-time job. I started a small online retail store to supplement our income, and I enjoy working at it much much more than my day job! I'd apply the $1M toward that enterprise, build it up until it became stressful, then sell it.

How long did it say you had to keep working to keep the money?

[Anonymous]

I'd go back to public school teaching.

[Anonymous]

I'd do activist research and community organizing.

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher.

[Anonymous]

Sadly, I'd keep my current job. My current very high stress job has led to the dreaded condition known as golden handcuffs...

Revise to $10 million (assuming a 50% lottery winnings tax, so net of $5M) and now you're talking!

In that case, I would either open a downtown boutique for working moms to run out to on their lunch hour or a great ice cream shop in my neighborhood. Or teach law school.

[Anonymous]

i would use that money to pay tuition at nursing school and became a Nurse Practitioner (nurse midwife specialty).

[Anonymous]

I would go back to school to study acupuncture and eastern medicine.

[Anonymous]

I would still do what I do, and in same place where I do it now, but I would choose to work less hours (9-2) For me, this would be heaven

[Anonymous]

Keep doing what I'm doing: raising my kids and doing some writing on the side.

[Anonymous]

That's not a lot of money, I'd stay at my current job. I probably would stay at my current job even if it were 5mil. This is the first time in my life I have loved my work. Of course it is easy to love when you only have to do it 24hrs a week like I do.

[Anonymous]

i would be an adjuct prof. at the community college level in my field a few times a week, or I would volunteer teach ESL. I would also only put my kids in daycare 3 days a week (currently it's 5 days).

I agree with PP, 1MM is not enough for me to retire right now, and I don't even make over 100k. I think it'd have to be more like 3MM+

[Anonymous]

Become a dog trainer.

But I agree with the PP who said it would have to be $5 million for me to stop working for an income.

[Anonymous]

I would tutor young children in early reading and early math one-one-one instead of in a larger group as a teach which is my usual job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's not a lot of money, I'd stay at my current job. I probably would stay at my current job even if it were 5mil. This is the first time in my life I have loved my work. Of course it is easy to love when you only have to do it 24hrs a week like I do.

You forgot to tell us what is your job that you love so much....