NateW
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2011
- Messages
- 425
I fired at 58 last July after working at Mega Trade Association as a standards developer. I planned to wait until 62 to retire to accumulate what I believed to be an adequate 401k balance. But two things happened that moved my fire date 4 years earlier: 1) Although I really liked what I did, w*rk became very stressful due to extremely heavy work loads (I basically burned out) and to top it all off, we moved office locations within the city and I went from an office to a cubicle. 2) I received a VERY large inheritance; one that would comfortabally cover at least 10 years of living expenses. So in June 2019 I gave a month's notice and in July I left on very good terms.
Immediately after I fired, DW and I moved to a lower cost of living area about 80 miles west and we are just getting settled in, thus I really have not had much of a break after leaving w*rk.
This Wednesday the Director of the Standards Dept. at Mega Trade Association calls me and says they are short two people in the department and a third is going on maternity leave next month. He asks if I would be interested in doing standards development contract work for at least the time the staff person is on maternity leave. Telework, from home, no travel at a rate of $700 to $1000 per day (I almost fell out of my chair when he said the amount). That rate is at least 3 times what I was paid as a salaried worker there.
I told the director I would call him Monday with my answer.
At face value this looks like a good deal, but these are the reasons I am reluctant to do the w*rk:
1. DW and I would lose our approximately $22,000 ACA I insurance subsidy due to the additional income.
2. I see this as becoming the same stressful full time position I was so happy to leave and at an lower pay rate due to me having to work over my allotted hours to get all the work done.
3. We really don't need the money.
4. DW does not want me to do it.
5. I want my free time. Front and center in my mind is the fact my father died at age 55 from a brain tumor and he never enjoyed or had a voluntary retirement. Don't want that to happen to me. You never know when your time has come to depart this earth.
Is my thinking sane as far as this is concerned?
Thanks.
Immediately after I fired, DW and I moved to a lower cost of living area about 80 miles west and we are just getting settled in, thus I really have not had much of a break after leaving w*rk.
This Wednesday the Director of the Standards Dept. at Mega Trade Association calls me and says they are short two people in the department and a third is going on maternity leave next month. He asks if I would be interested in doing standards development contract work for at least the time the staff person is on maternity leave. Telework, from home, no travel at a rate of $700 to $1000 per day (I almost fell out of my chair when he said the amount). That rate is at least 3 times what I was paid as a salaried worker there.
I told the director I would call him Monday with my answer.
At face value this looks like a good deal, but these are the reasons I am reluctant to do the w*rk:
1. DW and I would lose our approximately $22,000 ACA I insurance subsidy due to the additional income.
2. I see this as becoming the same stressful full time position I was so happy to leave and at an lower pay rate due to me having to work over my allotted hours to get all the work done.
3. We really don't need the money.
4. DW does not want me to do it.
5. I want my free time. Front and center in my mind is the fact my father died at age 55 from a brain tumor and he never enjoyed or had a voluntary retirement. Don't want that to happen to me. You never know when your time has come to depart this earth.
Is my thinking sane as far as this is concerned?
Thanks.
