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Lottery Winner
October 01, 20084-12-24-32-33 and Powerball 18. Holy crap. That can’t be right. 4, yep. 12, yep. 24, you betcha. 32, oh my God. 33, you know it. Powerball 18, yessssssss. Those are my numbers. It finally happened. I’ve won the lottery. Holy crap, I’ve won the lottery. Settle down. I’ve had high blood pressure. Don’t win then fall dead of a coronary. Settle down. First thing I’ve got to do is tell the wife.
“Oh honey, guess what? We won. No joke, really. We won. What do we do now? First thing we need to do is contact an attorney and an accountant. Oh, you mean what do we do with the money? What do we do with our lives?”
Good questions. Unfortunately, this was just a dream. But I woke up with those questions still in my head. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up seems like an odd thing for anybody over 40 to say but those that really know me wouldn’t be surprised to hear me say it. I’ve done a few things over the years. I was in the military. I was a credit manager and then a store manager for a furniture retailer. I’ve been a supervisor and now a plant manager for a manufacturing company. None of these really tied in with the other. They were just steps that I felt that I needed to take along the path of life.
They say that to gauge how happy you are at your job, you should ask yourself, “Would I do this if I won the lottery?” I always want to hunt the lottery winners down and smack them around whenever I hear them say that they will keep their jobs after winning. I hate those people. Give me the money then. I’m doing something different. They’ll know I’m gone when I’m not here anymore.
What would I do? I’m not sure of the complete answer. I know that I would be playing some of the poker tournament circuit. I wouldn’t play it full time because I have a wife, kids, and a granddaughter that I’d like to be able to spend some time with. But in the tournaments that I did play, I’d be able to play with a whole different attitude. Forget worrying about cashing. Win or bust. Play smart and stay aggressive. That’s it. As for what to do when not playing in a tournament, I’d probably still want to stay working on something. I think it would be something involving poker in some way.
So take a look at your life and what you’d do different if you won the lottery. Hopefully you can make some decisions early in life that make you one of those people I want to smack around. You know, so happy with your work that you don’t change anything if you win. Did I mention that I hate those people?
