1 | '''Basic Trope''': A [[{{Fiction500}} wealthy character]] works for a living, rather than just living it up. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice, a schoolteacher, wins millions of dollars in the lottery. Despite this, she does not give up teaching. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice is the school janitor. She wins the lottery, but still continues to be a janitor. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Alice keeps working, but cuts down to a part-time job rather than a full-time job. |
6 | ** Alice goes BackToSchool full time. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Alice loves her job, and wants to keep doing it for the personal satisfaction it brings her. |
9 | ** Alice tries lounging around all day for a while, but eventually she finds that it gets boring and goes back to work. |
10 | ** Alice wants to teach her kids AnAesop about the importance of hard work. |
11 | ** Alice wants to keep her skills sharp, just in case the worst happens. |
12 | ** Alice has a highly specialized and important job that not just anyone can do. |
13 | ** Alice donated all or most of her windfall to charity, rather than keeping it for herself. |
14 | ** Alice doesn't want to lose her benefits. |
15 | ** AFoolAndHerNewMoneyAreSoonParted, and Alice ain't no fool. |
16 | * '''Inverted''': As soon as she finds out she's won the lottery, Alice tells her boss to TakeThisJobAndShoveIt. |
17 | * '''Subverted''': |
18 | ** Alice is seen enjoying herself on the beach, not working. |
19 | ** Alice quits her job for this school district. |
20 | ** Alice ''did'' win the lottery, but she didn't win the Gazillion-Dollar Jackpot. Instead, she won a few hundred or a few thousand: enough for a vacation (or to put towards one), but not enough to quit her job. |
21 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
22 | ** Because it's summer vacation. She comes back in the fall. But at least she doesn't have to scramble to find a summer job like most other teachers do. |
23 | ** Because she's moving to Hawaii, and eventually gets a job teaching there. |
24 | ** But the next time she plays, she hits the Gazillion-Dollar Jackpot, and decides to keep teaching. |
25 | * '''Parodied''': |
26 | ** WhatExactlyIsHisJob |
27 | ** Alice wins the lottery, but she only wins a small amount, not millions or billions. People are still amazed that she continues to work. |
28 | * '''Zig Zagged''': NewJobAsThePlotDemands |
29 | * '''Averted''': Alice does not win the lottery. |
30 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
31 | * '''Lampshaded''': "I hear Alice is still teaching, even though she won the lottery." |
32 | * '''Invoked''': Alice wins the lottery, but she's got a job that she likes. |
33 | * '''Exploited''': Alice can use her extra money to have a OneHourWorkweek, or to buy things she wouldn't normally be able to buy on her teachers' salary. |
34 | * '''Defied''': Alice decides she's just going to live off her lottery winnings for the rest of her life, maybe investing so that the money doesn't run out. |
35 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
36 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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40 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
41 | %% |
42 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
43 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
44 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
45 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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