Grainiac
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2010
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- 102
After months of calculating and speculating DW and I have concluded that I can target 2014. I will be turning 50 that summer, and I am planning on quitting my j*b as a birthday present to myself. However, depending on how the year is going for the mecacorp I may delay until the December bonus day before quitting. FIRECalc is telling us that at our predicted RE spending level also DW could retire at 50 (one year after me), but at the moment she has no such plans and may well w*rk another 5 years after I quit. She is 100% fine with me quitting earlier, but I feel it will be necessary for us to be FI so that she can RE anytime if her mind changes.
I am not using the term retire for myself yet, because my post-megacorp plans will probably evolve a lot over the next 3 years. The core of the plan is obviously to get out of the megacorp, but I am researching various options to still w*rk in some capacity but in different environment. My technical expertise and global experience should give me a good edge to gain some kind of role with certain global non-profits doing something that would be very meaningful to me, but moving from my current overpaid exec position to something like that would mean 75 - 95% reduction in pay, which is why we need to be FI before I make the move. Or, if the world changes so much over the next 3 years that those opportunities are not there any more, I will have a full freedom to get into entirely unpaid charity work or just plain REtire.
Now, having this kind of vision about my future has already made a difference in my daily life. With a dream that is both practical and affordable it is simply easier to ignore [-]the atrocities of megacorp meat grinder[/-] our challenging corporate culture. I used to think almost every day that "I just can't wait to get out of this", but now it has changed to "Hey, actually this is not all that bad since it will be all behind me in just three short years".
I am not using the term retire for myself yet, because my post-megacorp plans will probably evolve a lot over the next 3 years. The core of the plan is obviously to get out of the megacorp, but I am researching various options to still w*rk in some capacity but in different environment. My technical expertise and global experience should give me a good edge to gain some kind of role with certain global non-profits doing something that would be very meaningful to me, but moving from my current overpaid exec position to something like that would mean 75 - 95% reduction in pay, which is why we need to be FI before I make the move. Or, if the world changes so much over the next 3 years that those opportunities are not there any more, I will have a full freedom to get into entirely unpaid charity work or just plain REtire.
Now, having this kind of vision about my future has already made a difference in my daily life. With a dream that is both practical and affordable it is simply easier to ignore [-]the atrocities of megacorp meat grinder[/-] our challenging corporate culture. I used to think almost every day that "I just can't wait to get out of this", but now it has changed to "Hey, actually this is not all that bad since it will be all behind me in just three short years".