I copied Luke’s Blog from yesterday…and I felt it needed my approach on what would happen if I won the $1.4 billion Power ball.

This is Luke’s blog from yesterday…I have added my edits in BOLD (and eliminated other words)

It’s almost hard to fathom how much money is up for grabs in the current Powerball game. as of Monday morning, the jackpot stands at $1.4 billion dollars. BILLION. It’s a world record for any lottery prize to be won with a single ticket. The lump-sum cash option is $868 million dollars. You figure you’ll have to whittle an additional $300 million off of that for taxes and you’re looking at a lump-sum of about $560 million dollars suddenly plunked into your bank account.

Say I win it. That’s so awesome! But I’m NOT going to work the next day.YOU WILL ONLY SEE ME AGAIN WHEN TERRY RICH IS HANDING ME THAT GIANT CHECK.

I should start by saying that I KINDA (SARCASM) absolutely love my job. I love coming to work every day and embracing the challenges that my job entails. I adore TOLERATE the people I work with and really look at my co-workers as my second family THAT I HAVE TO ENDURE DURING HOLIDAYS. I’ve been with this family for 17 16 years and just because I come into a very large amount of money, that doesn’t DOES mean I’m going to abandon my family.

Sure, the appeal is there to quit my job and do whatever I want with the hundreds of millions of dollars in my bank account. I could WILL certainly see traveling the world and buying any and everything I’ve ever wanted. That all sounds well and good, but I have to be honest here. I’m not the kind of person that could just quit his job and sit around home every day. Of course I’d travel and do the things I’ve always wanted, but that list has an  NO end and I will eventually NEVER reach it. After a while, you see everything you want to see...SO YOU GO SEE MORE.  You buy everything you want to buy. Then, what do you have? FAMILY AND HAPPINESS. You have the rest of your life and a house (or two or three OR FIVE) full of stuff that you couldn’t COULD possibly enjoy all at once.

The idea of coming into work every day gives my life structure ME HEADACHES. Just because I have hundreds of millions of dollars in my account, it doesn’t DEFINITELY mean I want to be treated any differently than any other employee. Don’t get me wrong, anyone that I go out to lunch with is getting free lunch AND WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH A RIGOROUS SECURITY BACKGROUND CHECK, but otherwise I’m just another co-worker WHO NOW CAN BUY AND SELL YOU. My job doesn’t get completed IS OVER once and for all with me winning copious amounts of money , so I’m going to belly up to the computer the bar and get to work POPPIN’ CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES.

But you better believe none of my vacations days will ever go unused!