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by indemnity 2263 days ago
I’m kind of like this... been at current employer around 8 years.

Motivation: very strictly 9-5 which is great for my toddler kids and personal side interests and being able to keep current even if employer is boring tech. Healthy compensation means I will be mortgage free in 2 years.

Profitable large company that will easily weather the coming storms (have always been tight with budgets), and not worried about layoffs since in growing + future investment part of company.

If it all goes to shit, once I own my house outright I don’t care, since wife owns a recession proof revenue producing business on which we can survive if I need to retool (can’t survive on only that while we have a mortgage payment on solely that income tho).

Many reasons for something like this.