Why do people think money will change

[vernon]

Firstly, I have not once said I do the same job as them. I do a different one and without sounding like an peanut my wage is different from theirs. Much different!!.

Whatever you get paid, you are being overpaid if you are at work today.

Postings made at 09:09, 09:21, 09:35 and 10:16.

Visiting the forum around 10:20 and 11:06.

Hardly productive use of your employer's time is it?

 

[Paul99]

That's 0.0047% of the population.

And your point is? Bearing in mind the entire population does not play the lottery.

My point is although most people will never win the jackpot, some do and while unlikely it is possible. So is it money wasted? Maybe. But everybody has an equal chance, and it does happen.

 

[Beebo]

If you are going to play with statistics and probability, then if you buy a ticket at lunchtime on the day of the draw, there is more chance that you will have died before the draw is made, than you winning.
I still buy the occasional ticket.

 

[simon the viking]

I always think that if you are bored after winning millions, which a lot of winners say years after they win, then you have no interests or hobbies in your normal life... I would just take my current interests to the extreme.... an expensive bike (2 years ago that would have been a car....Ferrari etc) and expensive still and video cameras and I would be content for the rest of life using them day in, day out...

But with any form of gambling you should only gamble what you can afford and not let the idea of a big win control your thoughts......

 

[yello]

I'd love to win the lottery. It might not make me happier but it'd make my misery more comfortable...

...to paraphrase someone or other.

 

[Beeankey]

Whatever you get paid, you are being overpaid if you are at work today.

Postings made at 09:09, 09:21, 09:35 and 10:16.

Visiting the forum around 10:20 and 11:06.

Hardly productive use of your employer's time is it?

Yet again. Another assumption.

and possibly the most anal post ever and you have too much time on your hands. Even bored on this train journey wouldn't make me want to look up the times of someone elses posts.

 

[vernon]

Yet again. Another assumption.

and possibly the most anal post ever and you have too much time on your hands. Even bored on this train journey wouldn't make me want to look up the times of someone elses posts.

I've got another three weeks of leisure and stalking you before I have to go back to work.

 

[byegad]

I've got a parallel.

I once worked with a guy who 'would never retire'. He loved his job ad wanted to be carried out in a box on his last day at work. He couldn't imagine ever leaving work. Time passed, his opinions didn't change and we got a new boss. Who made his life miserable. So, as he was already of an age where retirement was possible his wife virtually forced him into retirement.

I met him in the street a couple of years later and he looked well and happy, so I asked himhow was retirement. He said;

'I should have done it sooner, I was a fool to think that a change was going to be bad for me. I couldn't see past my job'

I know that IF I won a large amount, I'd:-
1. Move house, the present one is in a poor state and we are short of storage space.
2. Have more and somewhat longer holidays.
3. Drive a better/newer car.
4. Ensure my sons' future and my grand-children's.
5. Be fundamentally the same person, but without some of the money worries I have today.

I'm also sure things would be different in ways I can't predict. BUT! I'm willing to take the risk.

 

[Sara_H]

When I worked behind a shop counter, the guys I worked with used to dream of winning the pools (remember them folks?). I used to say to them, 'Just about your favourite thing in life is going out for a drink with your mates, right? Ok, say you won a million. Next time you go out for a drink, who buys the first round? How about the second? Do you buy every round, because you're so rich, or do you take beer off them, even though it costs them hard-earned? Do you resent them for expecting you to buy more? Or do you worry that they're resenting you for not buying more than 'your fair share', after all, you're stinking rich now, right? Basically, you're a millionaire now, and they're not....how long can you stay mates? And when it all goes tits up and you can't go out for a drink with your mates anymore because somehow they're not really your mates anymore, what are you going to do - buy some more?'

It would all go quiet for a bit.

And then they'd go back to talking about how great it would be if they won the pools.

This is a very good point. Before I divorced I was in a little gang of 3 couples. We did all the usual things, pubs, restaurants, weekends away etc.
One of the couples had a very successful business and were significantly financially better off the rest of us (3 nurses and 1 fireman). Though they had a bigger house and snazzier cars than us, they basically had the same social life as us as they had to go to places that we could afford!
So I always said, that their big piles of money made little difference, because their lives were the same as ours anyway!

 

[donnydave]

I've often pondered the lottery win scenario. I can imagine how things would be if I won, but I know I would simultaneously be curious about how things would turn out if I hadn't won. For that reason my imagined scenario is some sort of mad hybrid where I stay in my current job and progress my career as if nothing had happened, but always safe in the knowledge that I could get up and leave the office at any time.

This sort of thing crops up a lot at lunch time discussion at work, our best collective idea so far is to pay off any outstanding debts and put a bit away so you can continue your current lifestyle indefinitely (assuming current lifestyle is acceptable). Then go on kickstarter and blow the rest of the money on interesting science projects across the world that just need a bit of cash to get going. Sort of like dragons den but you nearly always say yes.

 

[cd365]

I know if I won the lottery my life would change. No work, no financial worries (not that I have much now) but me personally, I wouldn't change.

 

[MontyVeda]

A substantial lottery win would certainly change my life... I'd be able to retire early.

Don't want a fast car, or a flash car, or travel the world... but not having the burden of rent all of a sudden would certainly be a huge change in my life.

 

[MontyVeda]

When I worked behind a shop counter, the guys I worked with used to dream of winning the pools (remember them folks?). I used to say to them, 'Just about your favourite thing in life is going out for a drink with your mates, right? Ok, say you won a million. Next time you go out for a drink, who buys the first round? How about the second? Do you buy every round, because you're so rich, or do you take beer off them, even though it costs them hard-earned? Do you resent them for expecting you to buy more? Or do you worry that they're resenting you for not buying more than 'your fair share', after all, you're stinking rich now, right? Basically, you're a millionaire now, and they're not....how long can you stay mates? And when it all goes tits up and you can't go out for a drink with your mates anymore because somehow they're not really your mates anymore, what are you going to do - buy some more?'

It would all go quiet for a bit.

And then they'd go back to talking about how great it would be if they won the pools.

Great post.... did you write The Syndicate?

 

[swee'pea99]

4. Ensure my sons' future and my grand-children's.

I've always liked the quote from Bill Gates, who's given squillions to charity, and says of his financial legacy to his kids that he plans to leave them 'enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing'.

 

[Silver Fox]

If I won a huge amount on the lottery it would change my life, hopefully for the better. I like to think it would also have a positive impact on the lives of others. There are certain individuals that have been very kind to me and mine over the years and I've not forgotten them.