Why You're Nuts to Keep Working After Winning the Lottery

People who continue working after winning the lottery have a screw loose. Same thing for people who don't know what to do with themselves after they retire. For Pete's sake, there are 18 million trillion things to do in this world, and you live only once!

Okay, if a knee surgeon, who has restored thousands of bashed-up knees, chooses to continue his thriving practice even though he just won $40 million, I can understand that. But let's also be realistic: Lottery winners are never surgeons or other people who have so-called glamour professions. Lottery winners almost always have mundane jobs, or are retired.

Jackpot winners who continue working claim that they "love" their job. Oh really? These wouldn't by any chance be the same folks who whine about workplace management and policies, and gripe about the commute, would they now? Let's see, what else do people complain about, regarding the 8 to 5 grind? Complaints flourish about backstabbing co-workers, work conditions, and corporate corruptness. People complain about not getting enough vacation time. Yet they "love" their jobs? They "love" asking someone's permission to stay home sick in bed? Imagine that! Having no freedom to just curl up in bed and sleep in; you must report this to the boss first for his approval!

I can see loving the actual job, and hating upper management and the commute. But the jobs these lottery winners claim to love, involve bland, unexciting duties. How can anyone "love" to be inside a factory eight hours a day? Or stand at a cash box eight hours a day?

I love volleyball. But I'd get absolutely sick of it if I played it eight hours a day. I love to read. But I'd go crazy if I did it eight hours a day. I love to write, but I'd get burned out doing it eight hours a day. If you love your job, why not quit it anyways and do it at reduced hours as a hobby? This way, someone who REALLY NEEDS your job can have it!