Anonymous wrote:Make sure your fantasies allow for taxes, probably almost 50% in most cases and full payout takes a bite too. Important to account for details while daydreaming

Even worse, if you want a full cash payment and not an annuity, discount the amount by 40%. Add tax of another 40% so you are left with about 36% of the amount you won. I'll need to win a 20 mil lottery (net $7.2 ish mil) for me to retire.

Yep! Then I could choose my clients and under charge for work I really want.

I've worked out a thoery that gives you the best chance of picking the lottery numbers. It actually works with (or against, if you will) the fact that majority of people lose on the lottery.

Its quite tiresome, but its usually effective. Also I love doing sports betting online (usually on 우리카지노). My golden rule is as follow: Never risk more than that you can afford to lose..

I wouldn’t quit. I actually wouldn’t say a blessed thing. The last time any one of them would see my face or hear my voice is the day I win the lottery.

Hell no. I wouldn't even return for my pics.

Not a chance in hell. I wouldn't even give 2 weeks notice. I'd mail my laptop back to the office. They can have my pictures at my desk. I have copies.

I won the lottery, I married a beautiful, smart, successful doctor. But yes, I still work.

No chance.

I would definitely do a lot to stay busy. I love where we live and have no desire to buy a new house or ditch our lives overall. But I would not keep my current job, no. (I'd donate to the nonprofit where I work, but not work there.)

No, but I'd start my own company for the challenge and to be my own boss.

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely work, to keep my mind sharp.

There are at least 100 other ways to keep your mind sharp rather than making money for someone else.

Anonymous wrote:Would you work at your current job?

No. It's so stressful. I'd go in quietly Monday morning, slide my pictures into my handbag, leave my laptop on my desk, and my badge and quietly walk out and drive home. I actually have fantasies about this all the time.

My fantasy lottery win is netting $100M after taxes so probably.

If we net 5M or more after taxes.

I have one year until I reach my Fed MRA.

I would reduce to part time and work that one more year for the health benefits. We would spend that year figuring out where we want to live/do and taking some awesome vacations.

If we net 1.5M we would pay off our mortgage and set aside the remaining we need to fully pay college and start planning our African luxury glamping Safari.

Anything less and I would put it to a mix of mortgage/college/travel.

It depends on the amount. $1 million would not change much. $25 million is FU money.

Depends on the amount. Net $1-2M we could pay off the remaining bit on the mortgage, fully fund 529s and add a big chunk to retirement, while having some money to play and enjoy now. But that's not enough to retire.

Net $5M or up, would leave my job. I like my job and colleagues, but it's not what I would be doing with my time if I weren't well compensated.