I am just counting the minutes until the Mega Millions drawing and it seems like time is dragging by!
If you have Mega Millions Fever like me, be sure and tune into “20/20” tonight on ABC. They will be devoting the hour to the upcoming Mega Millions drawing, interviewing past lottery winners and losers, playing the odds, and talking about how past lottery winners have gone broke.
I know of at least one major lottery winner who promptly quit his job, but only after giving his employer a rather detailed list of everything that was wrong with him personally, his business and rate of pay and then, after clearing out his locker, he filled it with the contents of a garbage can and lit it on fire.
That lottery winner opted for the annual payments and promptly spent the entire first annual allotment in less than 30 days. An amount more than 100 times what his previous monthly salary was. Out of money, he was forced to go back to his previous employer and beg for his job back. Were there other jobs out there? Yes, but this winner burned plenty of bridges in the short month that he was “rich” and no one wanted to touch him with a ten foot pole.
Lucky for him, his old employer gave him his job back, at a decreased rate of pay, and when the winner's annual lottery payment arrived eleven months later, he politely gave his two-weeks notice and quietly disappeared from the public eye.
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