Would you quit your current job/school if you've just won 100M?

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ranmaniac

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May 14, 2001
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I wonder how many would go through it like MC Hammer?

I'd try to live off the interest, and setup a charitable trust, maybe an ATOT scholarship fund lol.
 

pontifex

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Dec 5, 2000
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definitely quit my current job.
i'd probably go back to school for something.
i'd also definitely travel a good bit and do anything i ever wanted to do before settling down again.
 
May 16, 2000
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I would definitely quit my job, though I would probably teach, at least for a while. I would stay in school for life though.
 

broon

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Jun 5, 2002
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I would quit my job and go back to school for a degree in something that I love.
 

DaShen

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Dec 1, 2000
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I would go back to school and just start taking everything I wanted to learn.
I would go pre-med and pursue that too.
 

BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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In a NY minute...I MIGHT take a limo to work on that day, and quit in style...but then again, I might just call in GONE!...Depends on the contractor I was working for. IF I was working for my preferrred superintendant, I'd take him out to lunch and tell him that way...(BEST boss I've ever had) bot anyone else, and they'd never even see me again...
Most of you are young enough that schooling or some kind of work might be a nice way to keep yourself busy, so you don't stagnate, but me, I'm already so stagnant they have to spray me for mosquitos ;) so I wouldn't work, and probably wouldn't do any school either. Travel, travel, travel...
 

meltdown75

Lifer
Nov 17, 2004
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I'd quit my job for sure. I would never work again, maybe for myself with my own business, but that would just be for something to do to keep me busy after spending a month somewhere sunny and a couple years just chillin'.
 

Eos

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Jun 14, 2000
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I would leave my current job, but I would also end up being bored in a few months. OH WELL!!! :D

bwahahahahahaha
 

CollectiveUnconscious

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Jan 27, 2006
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I definitely wouldn't look for another one. I probably wouldn't do anything for the first 2 or 3 years. Then I'd start volunteering or something else productive.
 

blue1friday2

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Mar 22, 2006
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Oh yeah I hate both my jobs, I would definitely quit. But I would probably end up going to school. Maybe get my Master's! And do tons of traveling, and make sure my parents were completely debt free, repay everyone who had helped me out. Get something nice for all of my friends, something they really need.
 

Kwaipie

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Nov 30, 2005
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I'd quit immediately and with that amount of money I would be setting up college trusts for college-worthy students. There is a city in Oregon where anyone that goes to high school there will have their higher education paid for them provided they go to school in Oregon.
 

QurazyQuisp

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Feb 5, 2003
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Would I quit my job? Yes, infact, it'll happen soon anyways. Would I quit school? No, but I would transfer. I currently go to Michigan State University... and I really want to to go to the University of British Columbia - Vancouver... but I can't justify $15k a year in loans, but with 100m, I could make it work.

I would a few million (2-3) to try to get my idea off the ground, it's getting there, but with one person working on it while managing 17 Credits & 25 hours of work a week, It doesn't get very far. With the money, and my free time from not working my job, it would get there quickly.
 

Rumpltzer

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Jun 7, 2003
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For $100M I'd certainly quit my job. I'd spread the money out among some friends and family, and then I'd go traveling. When I was done with that, I'd just start up whatever business I want and call that a job.
 

imported_Devine

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Oct 10, 2006
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From what I've heard if you win that much money they give you the option of getting out of the AF because are you really gonna care about someone telling you to do something if you got 100 million chilling in a bank account? I think not :)
 

PHiuR

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Apr 24, 2001
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No, I would not quit...I love what I study (photography). But I would take my time with it in school.