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I've worked 10-12 hour days almost every day for the last 3 weeks. Stress is off the charts, and it's mostly all just corporate
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I'm really comfortable now, don't really "need" more money because what I value way more is time. All I feel like I do is work...no time to enjoy anything... particularly the fruits of my labors. So again
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I'm in a unique position where the wife feels exactly the same. We're never having kids (we made sure of that biologically between the both of us), and we've decided that the house while nice and we love it, is a huge expense and maintenance item further preventing us from enjoying what little time we have.
We are very very very seriously considering calling it quits.
We love a city in northern MI...Traverse City, where we could buy a decent small house cash from the proceeds of our current house sale, then work jobs that we don't really feel that invested in or care much about moving up in. Hagerty...the classic car insurance company is HQ there, and I've been in talks with their HR department about a basic marketing gig. Would pay a little under half of what I make now, but without a mortgage, what do you really "need" to be happy?
This would put us in an area where we have direct and easy access to the activities we love to do, and take us out of the corp rat race garbage. Working for a small company that closely aligns with my values would rock, and I really think I'd enjoy the work.
This all started from friends we have about our age who did this exact thing 3 years ago. They're like different people now. They look better, seem (and claim to be) way happier, they can't recommend the move enough. We're pretty close to thinking that it could work really well for us.
So that's my current midlife crisis, if you can call it that. Might just be a life direction change. Anyone else have similar feels?
Oh, and
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