minyin says it isn't worth having your finger chopped off, even if it's the little finger on a non-dominant hand. "are you taking into account the risks of any form of surgery which would include a severe infection that could affect the whole hand?" she asks, mentioning also that you could have:

- neurological complications to do with having your nerves cut off
- vascular complications to do with having your blood vessels cut or tied off
- phantom limb pain though in this case just a finger
- psychological scarring not only due to regret but also body image problems

so don't do it, civil servants!

although she also adds: "but then i spose there's always the risk anyway of getting a hand injury/bite etc yourself anyway that ruins your hand nevermind arranging for people to chop it off." so i suppose that means, don't do it even for five million, but if you worked as a keeper of the crocodiles, you might as well take the money first.