How much $$$ would it take for you to quit your job?

[Wcross]

Poll question: How much $$$ would it take for you to quit your job?

Just daydreaming about the lottery, and I think I would quit being an employee if I cleared 300,000 after taxes. Whats your price? What would it take for you to leave the workforce. Either to start your own business or just plain retire?

[NightWatcher]

1. I own my own business, but if I made a million, I'd retire and leave the country

[Blue-Jay]

2. three-fiddy.

[PeaceNikki]

9. I said damnit monster, get off my lawn, I ain't giving you no tree fiddy!

[NMDemDist2]

12. i loved that bit

and still say ___ fiddy

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. If you mean in one lump sum and then retire, I'd need at least $1 million.

If you mean "What salary would draw you from your current job", then probably it would take something a good 50% more than I earn now - I like my job, and so I wouldn't be interested in switching for a small increase. Though if the alternative job was totally entirely frakking cool, I could be tempted to switch for the same pay.

[Wcross]

4. Leave the workforce, no salary at all.

What amount of money would you need to make your own living?

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Then it would be a million dollars

That's pretty much the minimum to be able to live on the interest while still allowing the principal to grow, hopefully matching inflation.

[femmocrat]

5. I would retire tomorrow if I had paid health care.

It's the only reason I'm still dragging myself out of bed at 5:30 a.m.

[DarkTirade]

7. I don't currently have a job because I just moved.

But in order for me to quit any job I would get, I would only need enough money to start my own business. I can't spend my time doing nothing. :P I'd go frikkin' nuts. I doubt I could ever really leave the work force entirely.

[Initech]

8. I'd take a couple mil easily.

I'm not a big spender, but living in California is more expensive than living just about everywhere else in the country. A couple mil would allow me to live comfortably without having to work.

[Shine]

10. As a SAHM, I don't get paid for my work

But my work has value, nonetheless.

[kedrys]

11. Half a mil to support the s.o. and the hordes

And then go into business for myself again.

[mark414]

13. i just did it for less than 2 grand

leavin in about 6 hours to head to the west coast and hawaii for a few months or more, bumming around mostly, find some work trade for food and shelter on some farms in hawaii...life is good

that said, i don't have any bills or rent or mortgage to worry about (also no kids, no wife/girlfriend), and i sleep for free 99.5% of the time so...i tend to save money. couple hundred bucks a month and i'm set.

aloha!

[LeftyMom]

14. Retire? For good? At 26? That'd be a hell of a lot of money.

I'd be thrilled with enough that I could quit working long enough to finish school.

[Orrex]

15. For the same benefits and amount that I make now...

I would happily stand ankle-deep in a bucket of shit for the same weekly hours. So, in essence, all that it would take to get me to leave my current figuratively shitty job for a literally shitty one is an equal compensation package.

To leave the workforce altogether and for good, I'd have to plead cowardice and hold out for, say, $2M. I'm just afraid that I'd fuck up otherwise and be stuck in huge debt and permanently unemployed (which isn't all that different from my current situation, aside from the fact of my employment).