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$1 million lottery winner won't quit waitress job
By msnbc.com staff


One 21-year-old Florida waitress has no plans to quit her day job – even after winning a $1 million lottery prize.

"No way," Alexandra Chaar told Florida Lottery officials on Wednesday. "I love where I work."

Chaar, who works at a Mexican restaurant in Clearwater Beach, Fla., said she bought her ticket in the state's $1 million Monopoly Scratch-Off Game at a local food mart.

"I kept going back to the same store to buy them; the people who work there got to know me," Chaar told the lottery commission. "They said that up to this point, their store had never had any big winners, but I just had this lucky feeling."

Chaar chose the one-time, lump-sum payment for her winnings in the amount of $700,000.

According to Tampa Bay Online, Chaar told lottery officials she was a straight-A student at St. Petersburg College and planned to use the money to pay for college.

Until then, she’ll keep working for tips.

I wouldn't quit my job either, $1 million doesn't go too far these days.

I'd keep working, while putting myself through the schooling of my choice, then open up my own business.

Well, I'm inclined to say she crazy, but in reality, 700k isn't a whole lot of money to live the rest of your life on....unless you had some extreme budgeting. But being a waitress, that job would've been bye bye for me. I would've used to money to set myself up for something else

She can pay off a lot of bills with that & have some security but she's smart to keep working. I'd get some training or education to get a better job too.

I'm thinking that she probably likes her waitressing job. 700k isn't enough to set someone for life, but it is more than enough to use as a stepping stone to help arrange a bigger and better career.

She appears young, so a million dollars wouldn't be enough to live on.

What she can and should do with it is to buy good health insurance

It's good to be practical, but I would be out of there like I just won 20 million. That 700k would stretch out a long time if she kept her previous lifestyle and didn't try to jump into a higher class.

$700,000 divided by 20 years is $35,000 per year. She should be able to afford a better life style (if she wanted) and a comfortable retirement but she's wise not to just kick back and live off that money. Our state lottery has an instant game with a top prize of $1,000 per week for life. I wouldn't stop working for that either. There are (were) some games for $5K per week. Then I would retire.