Anyone else have trouble staying professionally motivated or even rational as you get close to FI?

I remember my first job out of college working 80+ hour weeks. I stuck it out to get experience until I found another job.

Now I work half as much for 5x the salary, but they ask me to join one early meeting and my brain goes "The f*ck I will. How dare they even ask me that!" 😂

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100%. I am 12 months away and the struggle is real. I fantasize about getting a package/buy out. Trying to still be good to my teams and the people who have supported me but my patience for everything else is running incredibly thin.

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Plan on reading “How to engineer your own layoff” as I get within 18 months of FI.

Might be the same for you to put your plan into action.

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I am one year away and would also love to get a package. I am cynical about work and all the corporate nonsense. Glad to know I'm not alone.

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I retired recently but spent my last 6 months teaching within my existing organization and no longer performing my pre retirement role. This made a huge difference in my well being and my feeling of giving back and accomplishing something that felt real.

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Same. I’m like 4-6 years from being done and I couldn’t possibly put less effort in. I do just enough to sort of be professional. This industry hasn’t earned my effort.

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Yes, daily struggle. I try to do the minimum while managing optics so folks don’t try to pressure me to do anything elective

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That FI attitude should be your attitude from the beginning. Some will hate. All will respect.

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… I found the Turd-a-saurus cluster 😂

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