It all went down in late July, but the story was only recently told in a press release from the California Lottery. According to Fox, it wasn’t he who could be heard shouting for joy at the news that he was now a millionaire, but instead the guy behind him at the machine: Nothing saps one’s enthusiasm for a job interview like a million-dollar scratch-off jackpot, so it’s no surprise that once Fox managed to convince himself the prize was real and not some kind of computer glitch, he canceled the interview. But he doesn’t plan to quit his day job, nor does he even rule out the possibility of still getting a second seasonal job at some point, which may either be him trying to stay positive in the face of his public attention or just plain financial responsibility – after all, a million dollars isn’t what it used to be, especially after taxes. So even though most financial experts would probably advise against dropping ten bucks on a scratch-off ticket when in need of a second job, Michael Fox’s commitment to Lady Luck ended up paying a pretty big dividend. And that commitment doesn’t end just because he took home a big jackpot – according to Fox himself, he’d been playing California scratch-offs for 20 years, winning prizes as high as $500, before finally winning the big one, and he doesn’t intend to stop now:
