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I was fired...so I've decided to officially retire

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38(F) - I was fired from my corporate gig. It was a pretty traumatizing experience as I had helped the company sell to a much bigger company only to be let go. After navigating and negotiating my severance package, I decided to take a year off. After about 30 days into that, my husband decided to quit his job. So here we are...two 38 year olds without jobs. We talked it out and decided maybe this is it. Time to retire and stop stacking money when we are ultimately robbing our health and wasting our time making others extraordinarily wealthy.

Personal net worth: $2M

Combined net worth as a couple: $6M

No mortgage, no debt, no kids. Everything is a mix of cash/investments/retirement.

We have an airbnb that helps bring in some cash flow and my husband is on the board of his family business which pays out about $100k a year.

I'm still feeling a bit lost. How will we spend our days? How do we navigate health care without jobs, especially as we age.…

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