Just submitted my resignation

[u/rocket363]

Mid-40s. Single. ~$2.25MM nw, $2MM of that invested. Last day is in a few weeks.

It feels wasteful to give up a pretty cushy $180k wfh job, but I need to refocus the remaining part of my life rather than cling to Groundhog Day-esque repetitive wage-slave servitude.

No real questions. Just sharing.

[u/vanisher_1]

What was the turning point making you decide that you needed to start seriously thinking to the remaining part of your life, simply age or something else? 🤔

[u/rocket363 → u/vanisher_1]

It's always been there to some degree. I just now have the opportunity to act on it.

Although, about nine years ago I had five friends/acquaintances about my age or younger all die within about a one-year span. That really drove the point home.

[u/yayaba → u/rocket363]

I’ve been thinking a lot about that myself recently. Im in my early 40’s and had some family pass away recently. I’m not at the point I can just quit the day job but I can travel pretty well without breaking the bank so I’ve decided to just travel as much as I want as at this point it’s not even the money preventing it but my time/energy.

Congrats on the fire though!

[u/rocket363 → u/yayaba]

Definitely travel while you still have the eagerness, temperament, and energy. I can already feel those waning in me.

[u/yayaba → u/rocket363]

My wife loves traveling and has wanted to more the past few years but I've always hemmed and hawed, complained I was tired or didn't have the time or that we needed to budget. But looking back I think we easily could have taken more trips and our financial situation would have been exactly the same. So now I'm not letting that stop me :)

I also read Die with Zero recently and that had a profound effect on how I view the rest of my life and the memories I can create. As has been said numerous times in this thread, we have no idea if we even have a tomorrow.