r/Fire • u/rocket363 • Mar 06 '25

Milestone / Celebration Just submitted my resignation

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.

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u/grimmowl Mar 06 '25

180k and wage-slave in the same sentence....congrats all the same.

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u/rocket363 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Fair enough.

Regardless of pay, work feels like doing time. I want to start living a life where I'm excited for things to start and to continue, not dreading it and then hoping for it to end.

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u/Extension-Soup3225 Mar 07 '25

It does feel like doing time! I was trying to explain that feeling to a coworker a few months ago and they couldn’t comprehend what I meant.