My wife and I spend about 25% of our pre-tax income on childcare. Cutting that, plus another 10% other places would be fine.
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I quit at 50, living on savings and stock market...
I dont know, its just something awful about working every day. I got sick of it.
Now im not doing anything special but im free to just live.
idk; I get work via commissions (is that the word?) and rarely, earning little money. But with this at least I would have a constant source of money, and would get some peace of mind, so maybe?
Commissions doing what? Maybe we can find you some business here!
In Chile, I do reinforcement programming classes. They hire me for few hours per time. Thanks for caring about me :D
No problemo, amigo Chileno! Tenemos que ayudar el uno al otro.
heck. health insurance is a third of my expenses as is. would take that in a heartbeat. not to mention whatever youthened me. thats just a bonus.
My initial response was Hell yeah! But, then I remembered my job will pay for the kids college, so I'd be crazy to make that trade.
Nope. Even though I can pay my bills, I still need to be able to save for other emergencies and have some fun.
Invested in what ? What's the magic trick that won't leave you with nothing in the next 10 years.
It's...a hypothetical? A fabricated reason why you aren't given a massive lump sum of money, and instead have to live off dividends? The "what" doesn't matter.
Dividends from what ? Tell me company that can't collapse in the next 10 years, you have insides from billionaires who can shit fuck your investments in couple of seconds ?
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30s are prime earning years – stick with it for a bit longer.
Yep
No questions asked, as long as I got to keep my current house to live in and not move back to the house I lived in at 30.
100% I'd retire. I'd sell all my shit, buy a sailboat and cruise around the world for the rest of my life.
If I had the money to retire at 30, I'd be so much richer than I am now that even 65% of that would still be more than I'm getting now. But if I was the kind of person who earns that much, would I be content with that? We'll never know.
Probably not.
- I can't be certain that these earnings will cover even 10% of my expenses for a lifetime, because you never know.
- I feel too young to make such a drastic decision that will tremendously limit my future.
- I prefer enjoyable work with a healthy work-life-balance over not working at all.
If anything, I'd take more risks and sacrifices to get a more fulfilling work experience.