• Question: If you won over a million pounds in the lottery, would you still continue in your career or would you retire? And why?

    Asked by flyoctofly on 23 Jan 2020.
    • Photo: Christina Pagel

      Christina Pagel answered on 23 Jan 2020:

      good question. I live in London so you’d need to win more than a million to retire! but… I would probably work part time instead of full time and spend more time travelling and branching out into other things like working with charities or politics…

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      Deirdre Toher answered on 23 Jan 2020:

      Not enough to retire on I am afraid. Given that, with my family history, I am likely to live at least another 45 years, a million pounds isn’t enough to cover a comfortable, interesting life for that period of time, especially taking inflation into account!
      Also, I enjoy my job, so wouldn’t want to retire. It would mean that I could work reduced hours, which would be the idea best of both situations.

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      Maja Popovic answered on 23 Jan 2020:

      I would still do what I do, but I would be more relaxed.
      Why? Because I enjoy my job, but it is always on fixed-term contracts. So if I had a lot of money, it would not be a problem if I had no job for a while (between two fixed contracts).

    • Photo: Fiona Macfarlane

      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 23 Jan 2020:

      I would probably continue in research as I would get bored quickly, I maybe would take a few more holidays though and work from somewhere a bit sunnier

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