Within the last 7 years, I've reached my highest earning years at a company I've been with for 19 years. If I stay until I retire (10+ years), it's very likely I will be just fine retirement wise. Only problem is that I no longer like what I do (been working in same lane for 13 of the 19 years), it's stressful and I have no desire to stay in same industry except for the pay.
I've been planning to leave for over 2 years, but decided to stick it out when Covid hit and prepared myself financially to sustain without having to work for at least 1 year--I live well below my means and have about 45% of what I was hoping to have for retirement (I started saving late).
The time has come to make the final decision to leave and give myself a couple of months to reset--I am burned out! After that, I have plans to switch careers to something I'm very interested in trying; have already been learning. It'll be a challenge and I will be starting over, but I am excited to try (even as fear creeps in and out).
Letting go of the paycheck is the last thing. Why is this so hard?
What would you do?
Thank you.
Submitted June 01, 2022 at 12:48AM by Stunning_Class0686 https://ift.tt/uDMCzqd
