If you won £3 million pounds

[chrismpw]

I would retire as soon as I had found a replacement. However, I understand why some people would want to work. The mental challenges and sense of achievement are difficult to find in a hobby for many. I think the few that would continue working are probably those who are a) most successful career wise and b) high earners. If you earn 30k pa then 3m sounds impossible. If you're earning 250k pa then it's a goal rather than a dream

I'd suggest that those who'd carry on earn8ng are those that would be otherwise unsettled without that direction it gives, maybe the unimaginative, or those who just strive to acquire wealth for the sake of it.

There is honestly a lot you could do with £3m, for a lifetime that would allow you to live a good life. What more could anybody possibly want or need, that would drive you to do work away the precious few years you have on this planet?

There are those who aspire to have super yachts and mansions around the world, perhaps own big businesses to control people and feel they have power, always unsettled and looking for more to acquire - and those, relatively, with nothing but have found peace and contentedness in what they have.

Everything one has is only transient.

 

[chrismpw]

I'm very lucky to enjoy my job and work is good for mental health. Gives structure, purpose, sense of accomplishment, social interaction etc.

I'd possibly retire early if I found another way to get all that elsewhere but right now if I stopped working it would be a bit of a disaster I think.

If you enjoy doing your work that's sensible.

Ever since being a kid, I found school got in the way of doing what I wanted to do. Then I found the same at work. I enjoyed teaching as a job, I was good at it, but even then, just as a kid I lived for holidays so I could what I want - whether it was working on a car, fit out a boat, design loudspeakers, ride a bike, kick a ball, listen to music, play music, write a book.

I saved all my life, paid off the mortgage as quickly as I could. As soon as I figured I had enough to last me until I could draw my pension I just quit and stopped earning. I've been busy ever since just living, and it's the happiest I've ever been.