Fean
Dryer sheet aficionado
DW and I consider ourselves FI and Firecalc gives us 100% success with a budget 45% higher than we are planning. Nevertheless, our plan was to keep padding our buffer and officially pull the plug next year.
However, some recent management changes and related BS (I'll give more details in another post -- it's better than most Dilbert situations!) finally pushed me over the edge and I tendered my resignation on Monday with DW's full support. Early retirement! Finally!
Then my boss just had to propose a counter offer that I couldn't refuse. I'm currently signed up to work another 3 months with an option to continue after that indefinitely. I'll only be working 4 days a week and my net will still be significantly higher than my previous salary. I also won't need to deal with some personnel issues that had been giving me headaches.
I am sure that many of you have also had to deal with golden handcuffs. Do you have any advice on how to approach this or suggestions on how to avoid pitfalls? I was very VERY clear that I would hold standard office hours and not work nights, weekends, or days that I am officially off work. What could possibly go wrong? DW and I are looking at this as a 3 month extension and then we'll definitely call it quits. Probably.
Thoughts?
However, some recent management changes and related BS (I'll give more details in another post -- it's better than most Dilbert situations!) finally pushed me over the edge and I tendered my resignation on Monday with DW's full support. Early retirement! Finally!
Then my boss just had to propose a counter offer that I couldn't refuse. I'm currently signed up to work another 3 months with an option to continue after that indefinitely. I'll only be working 4 days a week and my net will still be significantly higher than my previous salary. I also won't need to deal with some personnel issues that had been giving me headaches.
I am sure that many of you have also had to deal with golden handcuffs. Do you have any advice on how to approach this or suggestions on how to avoid pitfalls? I was very VERY clear that I would hold standard office hours and not work nights, weekends, or days that I am officially off work. What could possibly go wrong? DW and I are looking at this as a 3 month extension and then we'll definitely call it quits. Probably.
Thoughts?