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By that I don't necessarily mean millions, but a substantial amount.
A former co-worker won $10,000 on a scratch-off a few yrs ago. Not life-changing, but certainly a nice chunk.
Also, back in 1995 I started a new job and soon heard about a guy who won $3M. He was an engineer....worked for several months after winning, then left about a month before I started and started his own firm. From what I heard some people were jealous, and although he didn't talk about it other people went on and on to the point where management had to say "enough lottery talk".
By that I don't necessarily mean millions, but a substantial amount.
A former co-worker won $10,000 on a scratch-off a few yrs ago. Not life-changing, but certainly a nice chunk.
Also, back in 1995 I started a new job and soon heard about a guy who won $3M. He was an engineer....worked for several months after winning, then left about a month before I started and started his own firm. From what I heard some people were jealous, and although he didn't talk about it other people went on and on to the point where management had to say "enough lottery talk".
There's a whole thread over on the Current Events forum that you can read through about that very subject:
The librarian in our school won. Kept right on working. Bought a new red caddy sedan. And it was millions.
I was in Penn one time for an interview. Didn't know you can't buy beer at the gas station (had to go a 'state store'). Went to a bar for a beer. Sat next to a guy. He and his buddies started talking to me, too. Turns out he won some sort of tri-state powerball - tens of millions. I asked him what he did next. Said, "Well, I bought my daughter a new Jeep Cherokee."
Yes, customer of mine. Also had a waitress that was going to play the numbers off of a fortune cookie. She forgot to. Those ended up being the winning numbers, in that order.
Many years ago when I was a postal employee a man on a route I often delivered to had won the lottery. Not a huge amount but around a million maybe plus a few hundred thousand. When he won he was a janitor but was retirement age, so when he hit the lottery he went ahead and retired, bought a house and a nice new pick up, and lived very reasonably using the lottery as his retirement pension.
A group of people in another department where I worked won $33 million to split between 35 people in the pool.
Back then (mid 90s) they didn't have a cash payout option, just the even payments over 20 years. After taxes, each one of them got $34,500 annually for 20 years. They didn't quit their jobs, but they never had to worry about paying for their kids' college educations or their mortgages or whatever.
I retired two years ago. The admin in the office where I worked always ran around collecting for a lottery pool when it got high. They finally hit a couple of months ago. Everybody got $30K.
The librarian in our school won. Kept right on working. Bought a new red caddy sedan. And it was millions.
I was in Penn one time for an interview. Didn't know you can't buy beer at the gas station (had to go a 'state store'). Went to a bar for a beer. Sat next to a guy. He and his buddies started talking to me, too. Turns out he won some sort of tri-state powerball - tens of millions. I asked him what he did next. Said, "Well, I bought my daughter a new Jeep Cherokee."
Ok.
When the group of people in my company won back in the 90s, one of the women told me that people kept asking her what she was going to do. She said the first thing she thought of was that she'd been wanting a little table for just inside her front door so she was going to get one.
Yes. An older woman that I used to work with a few years ago won $100,000 from a scratch off ticket. We were all very happy for her because she had wanted to retire and downsize her house.
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