why would you keep working after winning $15.5 million?

Would I continue working at the plant? Probably, if it's what I'd enjoyed doing already.

Why do I think they would? I guess, it's the life they're comfortable with. Their friends are there and they're probably determined to not let the money 'go to their heads'

and make them forget 'who they are' and 'who their friends were', before this new found wealth.The excitement of their wealth did not exceed, their need to continue to live as they had, sharing the excitement with their friends.

I would keep working because I love what I do. I think spending and loafing would be fun for alittle while, but I know, being somewhat 'hyper', I'd become depressed if I quit

working altogether. So there's only a limited amount of it I'd do. lol.. I mean, I'm not so tight that I squeak when I walk, and I probably throw and give away more money than most people already. But I've worked hard to 'be and have', what I am and have in my life. And I refuse to let money dictate my character, and turn me into someone that just lies around doing nothing, because I can afford to. Though I can understand someone that may invest the money in their own business, rather than continue to work for someone else.

I believe there are several people, that believe money is not so important that they find the need to pack up and move to "Beverly Hills" because they attained money or totally change their character because it's what people think they should do, or how they should act or live now.

{Sam Walton(Wal-Mart) dressed in everyday casual clothes and drove an old pickup, and acted so down to earth you'd never known that he had more than $20. bucks in his pocket} I admired him for being this way. And I've personally known a few more millionaires that do not base their self-worth on their bank account, and find a personal need to continue their lives, alot in the common style they were accustom to.

And this is my belief as to why these 3 people have chosen to continue their jobs at this time.

Money is only 'good', if we control it. And not, if it controlls us.

I wouldn't. Had you already forgotten my "secret formula" (in answer to your other lottery question) for how I would respond and what actions I would take if I won enough money to be set for life? Well, to refresh your memory, without providing details, I would disappear immediately after the news conference naming me as the winner. It's not a matter of wishing to live the Life of Reilly and simply not working. It's more about starting a new life somewhere far, far away, thus making the option of remaining at your present job an impossibility.

Anyway, a meat-packing plant? And some are going back? Seriously?

If you have a steady job that you're comfortable in and where you have a lot of friends, I can easily understand keeping the job. After taxes and the money being split up, though, it may not have amounted to much. Just enough to get a new house and put money aside for retirement and the kids' education. If you don't use the money, though, you'll just accumulate interest on it.

I dont know how I would react being in that situation. but I know i'd be bored to death if I wasnt working. If I was a mother maybe I would just find a part time job, so I could be at home with my kids. If not, I would start some kind of business that I can tend to that i'd be interested in. If the atmosphere at work was crappy than I probably wouldnt go back.

I would continue to work...after the governement takes their cut, and you split the money how many different ways...you're not going to be left with much (realative). So instead of acting like a neuvo rich millionaire, you should continue in your daily life. Maybe not keep the same job, but you have to do SOMETHING. Perfect oppertunity to start that business you always wanted...

I would stay for a few days but no more than that. Why work if you dont really need to? I can think of about fifty things to do other than work so if I dont need the money Im not gonna waste my time that way! Now I might use the money to start my own business but that is far different than working for someone else.

If I worked in a plant, I would go take some classes in something I loved (maybe college) and find a better job than a plant.

yes, i would work. I wouldn't believe this is true! I probably would be in such shock that I would not actually believe I won the lottery... so I better keep my job. After I adjusted to my new life style, i might reconsider, but not until I see that I am definitely receiving checks on time and I have sufficient enough in savings. That's just me though, such a skeptic.

i think i probably would continue to work after i won the lottery, just for the fact that i love my job, and went to college to be able to work where i am today.

i think the plant workers keep working just so they don't get bored with their lives and continue to want human contact.

(though i'm sure they're going to get lots of long lost family members coming out of the wood works!)

Boredom. Loneliness. People used to working 40+ hours a week often can't adjust to all that leisure time, so continue to work even if they don't need the money. Work helps provide structure in their lives.