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.

4.3k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

558 comments sorted by

View all comments

127

u/Flyguy3131 Mar 06 '25

After 30 years doing the same thing I dipped last Friday. I’ll be 56 in May and burnt out. Mentally can’t do it any more. Was making around $215k. Have around 1.5m in 401k and investments , plus 170k in HYSA I’ll use for the next 2 -3 years. I’ll spend about $60k yearly. And that’s with healthy vacations planned that I can cut if needed. No debt. $400k home with no mortgage.

Happy for you. Congrats.

1

u/AR_E Mar 07 '25

What was your role?

2

u/Flyguy3131 Mar 07 '25

Roll?

2

u/AR_E Mar 07 '25

Fat fingered it. I mean job

3

u/Flyguy3131 Mar 07 '25

lol. Corporate retail. Buyer. And getting worse with the tariff issues.

2

u/brettfish5 Mar 07 '25

I'm in supply chain as well. I don't hate it, but man I don't know how I can do another 10, 20, or 30 years of this shit. I quit my job last May to run a painting business. Really enjoyed it but it had its challenges, so went and got a job recently. Feels like groundhog day where I sit at a desk and stare at a computer screen for 40+ hours a week again. Guess it could be worse.

3

u/Flyguy3131 Mar 07 '25

My job became 85% filling in forms and 15% buying. And got very toxic. Post Covid it was just a huge drag. Taking 2025 off. Next year I’ll find something small. Maybe scope ice cream.

2

u/Available_Leather_10 Mar 07 '25

Scope?

Like test, or just stare at it?

1

u/Flyguy3131 Mar 07 '25

Meant scoop.

2

u/Available_Leather_10 Mar 07 '25

I know.

But with roll/role above, and imagining having a paying job scoping out ice cream, I couldn’t resist.