After a difficult few months, a preschool teacher had a stroke of good luck when he decided to buy two lottery tickets instead of one.

Joe Camp was fired in September after 20 years teaching preschool in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“A month after that, my dad passed away,” Camp said. “And it put me in a dark place.”

But he had many friends and family who told him to “stay there, believe in me.”

After finding a job in a car dealership’s sales center, Camp found “gold.”

In December, he was buying his Gold Rush weekly scratch-off ticket, and this time he bought two.

RELATED: The man is honoring the handshake of 28 years ago, dividing the lottery jackpot with a friend after winning millions

He didn’t win the first, so he eliminated the second and found that he had won $ 250,000.

“I fell to my knees at the gas station.”

His plans include a new home for himself and his daughter, and saving for her education.

“I want to have a house because I want to prepare it for my family, my grandchildren,” he said. “I want to have something for us.

WATCH: After years of waking up at 4 a.m. to hauling trash, the student is accepted to Harvard, and his reaction is pure joy.

“I never had anything, nobody transmitted anything, and that’s what I want to do.”

SPREAD the luck of infecting your friends on social networks …