The initial Covid breakout was a wake up call to me even though it didn’t fatally affect anyone I knew personally. It did change my perspective and wanted me t

The initial Covid breakout was a wake up call to me even though it didn’t fatally affect anyone I knew personally. It did change my perspective and wanted me to have a life without regrets. I am 49 and my wife is 47. My youngest (step)son graduated in 2020. I also got a permanently remote job the same month at BigTech (I am assigned to a “virtual office”) Last year, my wife and I sold both of our cars (we just bought hers the prior year), rented our house out (that we had built in 2016) to our son and two of his friends we have known for years, got rid of all of our belongings that wouldn’t fit in three suitcases and bought a fully furnished vacation home in a resort community in Florida that was a third the size of our house. We only stay there five months out of the year from October-February. We city hop the rest of the year around the US staying in mid range hotels and take Uber everywhere. I explicitly told my manager and skip manager I have no desire for a promotion and I at 49 years old am perfectly content at being an L5 (mid level) making a little less than a college grad Software Engineer three years out of school - I pivoted to (billable hands on keyboard) cloud consulting/app dev from enterprise dev. I make it a point to work exactly 40 hours a week. I have never been so happy and whenever death comes. I can say I spent years (months?) living my dream.