Powerball Winner Comes Forward, Quits ‘Nasty’ Job [Video]

One ticket winner of a $310-million Powerball jackpot has come forward. Julie Leach was a fiberglass factory worker from Three Rivers until winning. She kindly told her boss she didn’t need a raise and then quit the “nasty, dirty job” she had held for more than 20 years before claiming the second biggest jackpot in Michigan history.

The 50-year-old described what it was like when she checked her ticket, “I was having a really bad night at work and I thought I better check my numbers,” she said, adding that she was “shaking” when she slowly realized she won.

As to what she will do with the money, Leach told the reporters at the Powerball press conference, "I'm going to take care of my kids, I don't want them to have to work like I had to work and deal with the kinds of things I had to deal with over life. I just want to make it a good life for them, take care of them."

She also said she told her longtime boyfriend to quit his job too, "He wanted to go to work. I said, 'Are you crazy? We don't have to work anymore,'"

Leach is taking the lump sum cash option of $197.4 million. After taxes, her payout will be $140 million.