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If I Win $2,000,000 - I Swear I Am Quitting This Job!

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BojTrek

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If I win $2 million dollars (after taxes)... I am quitting this job...

I would sell my current house and buy a brand-new construction home. I would probably make $200,000 on my current house sale. So, I would now have $2,200,000

I would build a new brick construction house with 5 bedrooms, 3 full-bath rooms, a monster kitchen/dining room, a large living room with attached den/computer room.

My basment would be completely finished with monster entertainment area...

Gosh, I really hate my job... 8 hours a day phone support... I hate talking to people... I hate talking to stupid people...

Exact quote:

"We normally have all people out of the software prior to the download. We were amazed the download went with people logged in. We are all locked out of the software and the database seems to have crashed" - You think it was because NO ONE is supposed to be in while applying any massive database download... FUCKING IDIOTS.

"No, I don't know the error message and I am not in front of an actual PC to read the error... but it went something like this... BLAH, BLAH, BLAH... I am a fucking idiot"

KILL ME...
 
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human5892

Queen of Denmark
After building that sweet-sounding house of yours, you probably wouldn't have enough money left to quit work forever.

Hell, I don't even know if the full two million would allow you to do that, depending on where you live.
 
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Doth Togo

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Keep your job, pay off all bills and live off the combined income of your salary and the interest drawn from $2,000,000. It's a decent living.
 
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Ghost

Chili Con Carnage!
Well, not unless you invest it.


If you're gonna build a house you're gonna need at least 10mill


And the software lets you update while people are logged in? What a shitty piece of software.
 
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BojTrek

Banned
A new construction, brick house... with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths is selling for $775,000 about 1 block away from me... so it might cost me $1,000,000 to stay in the far north-west Chicago limit...

So, I still have $1,200,000 in the bank... I could live off that... all you do is pay taxes and house insurance every year on top of utilities and food...

How much interest would $1.2 million make a year? If I make $58,000 a year before taxes, that give me about $43,000 take home... over 30 years of working brings theat to $1.3 million...

I could easily live off $2 million...
 
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marko

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btrboyev said:
2 mil is not enough money to be able to quit your job.
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Of course it is, don't be ridiculous. After taxe it is 2 mill, so spend 300K on cars/houses/other things you want. Got 1.7 mill left. Live off $50 K a year (since house/car is paid for, can do that easily). Earn that easily with interest. Let the money grow with another 30K in interest earnings.

The real problem is, with 2 million dollars, people could not be disciplined to live life that.
 
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marko

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You would find it difficult to live off of 1.2 million with a million dollar house. You need to provide income, and let your money grow with inflation. Figure a safe but reasonable 5% return on investment, 1.2 mill only gives you 60,000 a year in interest income, figure you need to invest at least half that back in to keep your stash of money even with inflation, that would only give you $30K a year. How much does property tax cost on that million dollar home? Yeah, that would be pushing it.
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
Hah, I find it amusing that people are debating whether one could live off of $2M post-tax if they received it at once (even if they already had a house), yet the majority of people in this country earn ~$1.2M for their entire lives (pre-tax; this assumes the median pre-tax American income of ~$37K for 35 years labor). What horrible lives 50% of America must lead! And yet nobody wants to wake up to the fact that wages have not kept up with the cost of ANYTHING in this country (not speaking of anyone here in particular). It's sickening, really.


Imagine how the 40-50% of people in this country would feel seeing a discussion such as this, knowing that they'll never earn that amount of money in their entire lives? Must suck. Then again, America sucks.


This rant has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Norse god masquerading as a GA poster. :D
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Loki said:
Hah, I find it amusing that people are debating whether one could live off of $2M post-tax if they received it at once (even if they already had a house), yet the majority of people in this country earn ~$1.2M for their entire lives (pre-tax; this assumes the median pre-tax American income of ~$37K for 35 years labor). What horrible lives 50% of America must lead! And yet nobody wants to wake up to the fact that wages have not kept up with the cost of ANYTHING in this country (not speaking of anyone here in particular). It's sickening, really.


Imagine how the 40-50% of people in this country would feel seeing a discussion such as this, knowing that they'll never earn that amount of money in their entire lives? Must suck. Then again, America sucks.


This rant has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Norse god masquerading as a GA poster. :D
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Thumbs up. Factor in time value of money and the disparity's much greater too.
 
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DarthWoo

I'm glad Grandpa porked a Chinese Muslim
I know that if I ever won that amount of money, I'd live off the interest and just become a professional student for the rest of my days. I don't think I'd actually take a full course-load, of course, but I'd find a modest house near a good college campus, and just take a leisurely amount of courses, preferably focusing on art. I really miss State College, PA, so perhaps I'd go back there.
 
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Miguel

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Buy a house...not sure where.
Build a "Cinema" type thing in one room. Complete with PS2/Xbox/GC/DVD/HD-DVR Cable.
Have a "computer room" with a HD 35 inch TV w/ DVR nearby to watch TV.

My living room would probably just have 2-3 black couches, and a nice surround sound system for teh muzak. (Linkin Park blasting throughout the whole house :))

Anyway, the Cinema would probably me where I spent the most time. I'd have a laptop in there also :p
 
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Ninja Scooter

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Miguel said:
Buy a house...not sure where.
Build a "Cinema" type thing in one room. Complete with PS2/Xbox/GC/DVD/HD-DVR Cable.
Have a "computer room" with a HD 35 inch TV w/ DVR nearby to watch TV.

My living room would probably just have 2-3 black couches, and a nice surround sound system for teh muzak. (Linkin Park blasting throughout the whole house :))

Anyway, the Cinema would probably me where I spent the most time. I'd have a laptop in there also :p
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don't lie Mig. You know you'd just spend the $2 million to hire Yao to play a game of one on one with you.
 
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signet

Member
I would buy a new home, new car and some "toys' then bank the rest and live off the interest.


Yep that is what I would do.
 
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