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Originally Posted by Kroeran This can be misplayed however. If you let it get out that you can walk away any time, astute managers will avoid you, knowing that you won't say how high, when asked to jump.

Which could hurt you in trying to find a new j*b. If hiring managers don't think you'll have a sense of urgency about the j*b -- that you won't care because you don't have to (like the phone company!), that you won't be motivated by fear, that sort of thing -- they may be more likely to pass on you in favor of someone they can exert more control and leverage over.

Of course, if you become FI on the job and you demonstrate your value, it's also more likely that you can parlay that into a more enjoyable work experience, as my father did once he turned 55 and became pension-eligible. It's at the point when you are FI and when your bosses don't want you to retire that brings the unusual point in time, the worker, not the employer, has the stronger hand.

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Originally Posted by REWahoo I'm pretty sure if you use the search button to look through the 569,000 posts on the forum that you'll find the subject has been thoroughly vetted a number of times. Of course much of the discussion could be sour grapes from those of us who weren't fortunate enough to find such a job.

True that. I am a bit envious of people who truly love their j*b to the point where they don't see a need to retire from it. And increasingly, I've been more thinking "second career" than pure FIRE recently. I think I'd rather do the rat race thing until age 50 and then find something lower-paying I'd enjoy more until 60 than stay with the rat race until 55. How it actually plays out partially depends on how my wife's new gig eventually plays out.