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I'm looking to do something similar, leave behind the high stress and find something more meaningful to work on that covers the bills while my nest egg matures.
by skort 5y ago
I'm looking to do something similar, leave behind the high stress and find something more meaningful to work on that covers the bills while my nest egg matures. I admittedly have not looked into what's next as much as I should have, but do you have any tips on how to make such a transition?
- throwAway97557 5y agoMoving out of the bay made a big difference for me. I'm now somewhere in the middle of the country. I have twice the house to live in and 200x more land to roam for about half the price. With the extra land, I can also grow a lot of my own food. The openness to remote work has been huge. I have colleagues in the bay and NYC. We get paid the same but my money goes twice as far. At the same time, I've always been a frugal person. When at FB, I budgeted like I was making about 1/5 of my actual income since I always saw it as a transitory windfall. I don't think I've done anything outside the standard box of lowering my expenses and investing anything I've saved.