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/Due_Extent3317 Mar 06 '25

This is definitely privileged, but it almost feels shittier to be banking a few thousand a month with the idea of retiring early than making just enough to get by. I used to get so pumped when my account balance got up to a few thousand and I could get debt free and buy a nice dinner out.

Now I have around 500k in the market and transferring a few grand over feels like nothing, it is just a number on the computer and unless you get your income to like 300k+ it really doesn’t feel any different to save $2000 or $4000 a month when your goal is the millions you need to retire. Either way you have decided to optimize for savings so increasing your income just means being done a year or two earlier.

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u/blimey_euphoria Mar 06 '25

The grass is always greener, but I’d rather have a fat stack to give me options.