To start off, as some of you might know, I am retired and have been for a while now. DW has continued to w*rk even though we are solidly FI and there is no good reason (monetarily) for her to do so. Now...
She has been the real estate business for the last 16 years. She has really enjoyed her j*b up until about a month ago. She is involved in property management for SFHs and works from home (and has done so for about 10 years). Over the years, the company has been merged/acquired by different entities and most recently by a very large company in the field. That is when things started going down hill.
Long story short, her responsibilities now cannot be competently completed in less than 20 hours (or more) a day. They have added and added and added to her workload and complaints to her boss have gone unanswered. As a matter of fact, he went so far as to tell her to not put her issues/complaints in an email
I try to be the good DH and offer moral support, but it's tough to not give advice, either. She is being used and she knows it, but won't stop killing herself. I have tried to tell her that these people don't give a damn about her, just that they are getting their money's worth out of her. To add insult to injury, they (institutional investors as of late) can't seem to understand that R/E is local and that every market is different. They only try and apply a single set of rules/circumstances across all markets and this just isn't feasible (and often not legal) but they will not listen to her concerns.
So good folks of ER.org, what can I do to perhaps help the situation along? She has looked at other j*bs, but to make the $$$ she is now, it would require relocation and we are not willing to do that. I wish I could convince her to leave this rat race behind, but I just don't think it's in her blood to retire so early (she's 43 years old).