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      10-29-2019, 02:10 PM   #5
kscarrol
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Like the OP, was just shy of 50 and really burned out in my investment banking job. The house is paid for, no debt etc.

Walked away and now consider my self semi-retired as I teach finance at a local university. Being non-tenured track I don't have the "publish or perish" pressure so summers are free, long breaks for spring break, holidays etc. Would have likely totally retired but I have two kids and one is a type 1 diabetic. The cost of an Obama care insurance policy would have been prohibitive so I took the teaching job. By the standards of my investment banking life I very much consider this a part time job though it is a "full-time" teaching position.

My dad worked hard and was very successful but I watched him work until the day he died. Not because he had too but because he enjoyed it, so much so that he really had no outside hobbies. I was not going to do that given my financial situation allowing me to not have to.
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