<p>Lets say in 10 years time your an Ibanker at Goldman Sachs or whatever company you want to work for and you win the lottery for $50 million dollars. Would you retire or would you continue to work and try to get more.</p>
<p>I would quit Ibanking and persue a life long dream or something.</p>
<p>Or make my dream company; Wila Corp.</p>
<p>if i am an i-banker for goldman in 10 yrs time, I would never be on a line buying lottery tickets. definetely won't retire, why retire so early? it is hard to live without something to do. I would make investments, start my own company, etc.,</p>
<p>I was going to point that out aswell...</p>
<p>I'd move to New Zealand and become a sheep herder.</p>
<p>i would quit and open a restaurant</p>
<p>Invest in a professional sports team!</p>
<p>Buy a premiership rugby team.</p>
<p>I would keep working at Goldman Sachs or wherever anyways because I want more money. If I win the lottery for $500MM, then...nah, I'd keep working anyway (to make more money).</p>
<p>Money is a drug. In the beginning you want a little, then you want more, then more, then more, then more, etc and you'll never be satisfied, although you will have momentary satisfaction that you have all that money. Then you start wanting more.</p>
<p>I'll stop working and travel around the GLOBE!</p>
<p>futurenyustudent, why do you need so much money? like what are you gonna buy with 500MM+?</p>
<p>I'll figure that out eventually. But The more money, the merrier. :D</p>
<p>I would stop working and start my own game company YAYUH!!!
and I also want to open a restaurant =)</p>
<p>With more money I would donate some of them =)</p>
<p>How much would it take to name Harvard or Columbia business school after you? Too bad Wharton is already taken.</p>
<p>I call dibs on Harvard Business School!!!!!</p>
<p>sorry to destroy people's dreams..... but i have to say this.</p>
<p>you'll work for goldman sachs
16 hours a day, 7 days a week.</p>
<p>thus you won't have any time to meet other people.
so, you'll have to marry by meeting people over the internet or getting an arranged marriage.</p>
<p>however, your wife(or husband) will divorce you because you're not coming home very often.</p>
<p>Out of your 500 million, your wife(husband) will sue you, and take the half of your assets.</p>
<p>AHHHH</p>
<p>what a happy life :D</p>
<p>who said you have to stay in banking all your life? The point of banking is to create exit opportunities.</p>
<p>Have you ever looked at the job qualifications for top jobs? </p>
<p>Every Business Development/Corporate Development job I've seen lists either a few years of MC or a few years of banking experience as a requirement.</p>
<p>PE and VC have the same requirements too, for a Pre-MBA Associate position you need 2-3 years of i-banking experience. VC is a little different, you can enter from a specialized industry but usually 2-3 years of banking at a BB can be enough.</p>
<p>The point is, by working somewhere like GS you give yourself opportunities and it would be foolish not to take them. You dont have to work there forever, you just have to get that analyst stint under your belt and then go after a career that really interests you. Most people think PE is awesome because you end up on the buyside than the sellside. In Corporate Dev you end up making decisions that actually can totally change the direction a company is going, your decisions matter and are put into action. So yeah, no one has to work those crazy banker hours forever -- that choice is up to the individual.</p>
<p>My game plan was to quit investment banking in my early 30's and go become a venture capitalist :)</p>
<p>But anyways my point was that If I won the lottery for $500MM I still wouldn't deviate from my ibanker->MBA->ibanker->venture capitalist game plan.....:D</p>
<p>And who said you have to marry people? Lots of people stay single their entire lives.</p>
<p>If I had that much money I would go out on the street and burn hundred dollar bills in front of homeless people.</p>
<p>If I had that much money I would go out and burn fake hundred dollar bills in front of Quoth the raven after he burned up all his money. Then, to add insult to injury I would buy myself a collection of Ferrari Enzo's and buy him a mentos. He will need a fresh breath for his new occupation - street bum.</p>