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September 17, 2003
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I think it was only $100. Less than what I spent and lost.
I plan on giving 20-40% to my family and very close friends. Really depends on how much I win. 0% to charity however. Since I'm an athiest I don't really have to worry about a church.
North Carolina United States
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June 5, 2005
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Hire a typist to type my resignation for work, four pages long with what I think is wrong with the company. Then start handing out c-notes to my former co-drivers.
Tennessee United States
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October 15, 2004
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Hire a typist to type my resignation for work, four pages long with what I think is wrong with the company. Then start handing out c-notes to my former co-drivers.
A long and winding road United States
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June 10, 2005
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After being blessed with winning, its without questions that:
1: I'd maintain my current job for the first year. That will give time to have the house built and my immediate family taken care of.
2: I'd seriously get some medical matters tended to that will enable my life to be more productive.
3: I'd quietly resign from my job after a year. And not because I don't like it. My job is awesome! But given the fact that there is such unemployment and single parents seeking a well paid job in a healthy work environment. I'd feel selfish keeping it knowing that someone else could flourish from the career.
4: Traveling would definitely take a forefront. Their are plenty of friends overseas whom I dearly have not had the chance to re-connect with. The money would serve that purpose well.
Cleveland United States
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June 14, 2005
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I would buy a car, since I have never owned one a jag Stype since that is my dream car and just pay off my bills, and finish school... and try not to let that much money overwhelm me
A long and winding road United States
Member #17,083
June 10, 2005
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i see no reason to keep working after hitting a jackpot.
Intrigueing comment. Care to elaborate on the class of workers ( or career driven folks) who do consider there work an asset to the community or healthfield? To just drop the years of training and dedication to live vicariously seems to reduce the career choice down to the mentality that the field was chosen for the almighty dollar, There are far too many folks who actually DO enjoy their career or part time work. Who actually enjoy helping others or being productive in a community sort of way. Former President Jimmy Carter voluntarily works for HABITAT. Here is a man who is well protected and has investment beyond the average man, out there contributing to society... He doesnt NEED to work, but instead chooses too. Nothing wrong with that I hope...
(Gently gets off soap box in hopes of not getting egg on the face for such a commentary.)
New Mexico United States
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March 10, 2005
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i see no reason to keep working after hitting a jackpot.
Intrigueing comment. Care to elaborate on the class of workers ( or career driven folks) who do consider there work an asset to the community or healthfield? To just drop the years of training and dedication to live vicariously seems to reduce the career choice down to the mentality that the field was chosen for the almighty dollar, There are far too many folks who actually DO enjoy their career or part time work. Who actually enjoy helping others or being productive in a community sort of way. Former President Jimmy Carter voluntarily works for HABITAT. Here is a man who is well protected and has investment beyond the average man, out there contributing to society... He doesnt NEED to work, but instead chooses too. Nothing wrong with that I hope...
(Gently gets off soap box in hopes of not getting egg on the face for such a commentary.)
Carter's a lot better man these days, what with not being prez and all. But what he does is his own business. If you like your own job, stick with it. If I want to lie under a tree picking my nose and eating pickled pigs feet, it's no hair off the backside of anyone else.
I'm willing to tip my hat to Jimmy Carter and what he sees as what he ought to be doing, because I believe he believes he's doing right. But I'm not tipping my hat to anyone who tries to soapbox me into thinking that what Jimmy Carter happens to think is right is also right for me.
You wanna go do health, go do health. You wanna work habitat, work habitat. But don't kid yourself that what you do is any purer, more virtuous than the guy under the tree picking his nose, simply because that's what you want to do.
(Gently gets off soap box in hopes of not getting egg on the face for such a commentary.)