37-year-old quit her $390k Google job after saving up $1.5M(www.cnbc.com)
10 pointsby mooreds6 hours ago4 comments
  • jleyank5 hours ago
    I would imagine the financial numbers don't look so rosy if children are present (assuming the person's in the US). Uni and post-uni tuition and fees could eat a fair bit of 1.5M.
  • venturecruelty4 hours ago
    Good for her, I hope she's happy. I also hope that everyone else can still afford groceries and rent through the holiday season. May we build a better world where nobody has to struggle, because we all can't work for Google. Someone still has to clean the toilets.
  • archagon2 hours ago
    Good for her, but why is this news?
  • add-sub-mul-div5 hours ago
    I've also retired early after saving and keeping a simple lifestyle. I don't understand why more people in tech don't do it. My mental and physical health are both better than the last time I was working.

    Sometimes I'm tempted to get another job on the basis that it would be all disposable income. But then I think, what could I buy that would be more valuable than the 40 hours a week I'd be giving up? Maybe I'm just lucky that I have no interest in fancy things.

    • brianwawok5 hours ago
      Do you have a family and children? Not impossible but it’s much more complicated when others are involved.
      • add-sub-mul-div4 hours ago
        Just one kid, you're right, not feeling an imperative to have a sprawling family goes a long way to making it possible.
    • __turbobrew__5 hours ago
      Lifestyle creep and tech hubs have expensive real estate. I am super lucky in that I have a FAANG job in LCOL area and will most likely be FIRE by I am 40 with a fully paid off single detached home, but you cannot do that in the bay area where almost all your income will go to paying your mortgage.

      I also know a co-worker who lives in a LCOL area and just bought a Porsche 911 GT3…

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    • venturecruelty4 hours ago
      >I don't understand why more people in tech don't do it.

      Let me ask my landlord for you.

    • iwontberude5 hours ago
      After buying so many things it gets boring and you figure out the few tricks you need to be satisfied. I think most people figure it out eventually.