re: If you win the lottery, are you quitting your job and how many people are you telling?

Quitting my job, telling no one. But there will be signs.

Not quitting, they will fire me when I disappear off the face of the earth. I will cut contact with everyone except one person, until I claim my winnings.

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I'd quit right now if I got a $2 million lump sum and never work again.

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Interesting- $2m would be about $1m after taxes though.

I'm thinking about this just as a thought experiment.
How old are you, and do you have kids to put through school, other bills?
$1m lump sum wouldn't be enough for most people to quit working and never work again, unless you were nearly ready to retire anyway. Like, someone in their 30s could never do that.

Assuming you meant a lump sum that leaves you with $2m in cash, if you put all of that in an index fund in the stock market, a typical return (assuming no down year) would get you what, 100k a year to 150? If you're willing to live very modestly, you could live off of your $2m for a long time. Still, you're better off working for 5 or 6 more years at least, letting your returns compound and not touching them.

Now, if you've got about $5m socked away in an index fund that tracks the market, that's a very healthy low to mid 6 figure return you could expect in most years from your cash.

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I currently have an employee than won a $3.2 MM Texas lottery scratch off ticket in 2020. They took the lump sum instead of annuity & recently a built a much larger house. She's in her early 40's with 3 kids & has no interest in quitting her job.

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And that's very smart. That wasn't enough money for her to stop working. Sounds like they saved / invested their money, including building a nice house that should rise in value. That will be a really big boost to their family- should make it way easier to plan for their kids' education, the parents' retirement, and maybe one day something nice to leave to their children when they are gone.

I’d be done as quick as I could sign my company over to my partner

See ya bud - life is more than work