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Mega Millons

JesasaurusRex said:
Plus fuck being the only guy to show up to work the following Monday. Only time i play is when my coworkers have a pool. Not because i expect to win but because of how depressing it would be if they won and the only one who didn't play was me :laughing
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Huh. I would come to work anyway and not tell anybody. I guess if there is a pool, it is hard to keep it quiet though. I don't think my work would know if I won until a couple of months afterwards, when I gave my notice once I had all the finances in line and a clear plan of transition.
 
Silence said:
If pooling is allowed, how many people would you guys be willing to pool with to increase your chances of winning?

Is there something blocking the formation of a service provider that could aggregate ticket purchasing and turn it in to a subscription model? :laughing :laughing
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I'd be more inclined to wager a dollar into a million person pool, for the increased chance of winning around a grand each.
 
Winning about 10 to 80 million would be rad, but nearly a billion? That will fuck up your life a lot. Too much attention.
 
Climber said:
With that kind of money, you could move to an enclave like the other Billionaires.
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How much fun would it be to have "new billionaire" money and fuck up all the "old money" billionaire social events? Like Rodney Dangerfield x a Billion style.
 
augustiron said:
Winning about 10 to 80 million would be rad, but nearly a billion? That will fuck up your life a lot. Too much attention.
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Fuck it up? No, Son, you have no idea. I would change the whole bloody world.
 
Eldritch said:
Fuck it up? No, Son, you have no idea. I would change the whole bloody world.
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For some reason, this scene popped into my head when I read your post (Not a reflection on my perception of you). :twofinger

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Eldritch said:
Nah, you should have gone to:

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Ha!

My other first thought was that you'd search out Maiden 4EVA and party with him. :laughing

Edit: Fixed name from Iron Maiden to Maiden 4EVA
 
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Eldritch said:
Huh. I would come to work anyway and not tell anybody. I guess if there is a pool, it is hard to keep it quiet though. I don't think my work would know if I won until a couple of months afterwards, when I gave my notice once I had all the finances in line and a clear plan of transition.
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You say that now

Getting up when that alarm clock rings out at 5am is a little harder when you're a millionaire I'd imagine.
 
First I'd set up 2 trusts to receive the winnings so the fucking media don't go telling the whole damn world I won a billion dollars. Then I'd do fun stuff until I die.
 
JesasaurusRex said:
You say that now

Getting up when that alarm clock rings out at 5am is a little harder when you're a millionaire I'd imagine.
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I probably wouldn’t be stressing too much about running late though. Work starts at 7, yeah I’ll be in around 9.

It might be entertaining to continue working for a little while until I realize I could instead be in the Mediterranean on the south of Spain instead.
 
4 coworkers & I just bought $100 worth of tickets.
We gonna win or be out $20 each. : :laughing
 
Abacinator said:
First I'd set up 2 trusts to receive the winnings so the fucking media don't go telling the whole damn world I won a billion dollars. Then I'd do fun stuff until I die.
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Some states require announcing the winner.

augustiron said:
Winning about 10 to 80 million would be rad, but nearly a billion? That will fuck up your life a lot. Too much attention.
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Discipline though folks...just discipline.

I have no problem cutting someone off and making new friends or going it alone if I don’t like the company. I’ll help out family - gotta take care of them. But not ongoing. Each person gets a debt reset and that’s it. Car, house, student loans, whatever you got, I’ll zero it out. But don’t ask for more after that. I might still treat you from time to time just because I feel like it but the moment you start demanding is when I stop inviting you to holiday parties and whatnot.

Friends, same thing - a minor payoff of a car loan here and there but that’s it. Most of my friends are doing better than me right now anyway, by a significant amount (some of them by a digit or two annually, and I’m no slouch myself). So I doubt I’d have much issue there. I wouldn’t go buying a Los Gatos Hills mansion or anything, but I’d probably snag a modest place by the beach in Santa Cruz, a place for future retirement in SLO or something, and then a modest place here in the Bay Area and just keep working. Act like nothing happened and just tell everyone it’s from working in tech. Wouldn’t buy a Bugatti or anything, maybe a new Porsche or BMW though something I can daily drive comfortably.

I’d lock 1/2 - 3/4 of the money away in a trust fund of some sort that I could only draw on for medical expenses or retirement once I hit 60. That’d still leave double digit millions for all the stuff I mentioned above, and I’d set that up to be doled out slowly like 5% per year and just play around with being a venture capitalist / angel investor.
 
Why someone has already won, but other one in SF is still buying a ticket 2 days later?

BTW AFAIK, 1.9 Mil can give you three sweet townhouses 15-20 miles away from SF. Which is still quite something.
 
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