Say you live in a high cost of living city, how much FK YOU money would make you comfortable quitting a job without anything lined up?

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150k at least

Not liking Arnold? Freelance is terrible and salaries have reset across the board, might want to wait and see if ad spending heats up in 2025, its bleak out here

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$200k

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Minimum 6 unless you do it via contract work. Actually, how I was able to do it with 6 months of savings. Of course the economy was better in 2015. Today the 12 months might be more realistic. It’s Q4 if anyone reaches out for freelance take it.

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2 years comfortably in savings. And even then, I'd be nervous and a bit conservative with my spending.

A year’s salary minimum

Probably 100k, but the issue is, if I had 100k, I wouldn’t want to blow it on day to day expenses bc I’m not working vs using it as a down payment on a house or something.

Exactly the reason of my post. I have 100k now so can technically just quit and do nothing for at least 6 months. But then I think about what could’ve been done with that 100k… guess life just ain’t perfect and there will always be an opportunity cost

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$5 million.

$1 million for finding another job but quitting the original job with no notice.

$5 million will earn you ~$260,000 in interest per year. Unless you’re living like a Kardashian, that should be enough to not have to waste your time begging some useless recruiter to give you a dead end job making banner ads.

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$100Mil. A nice house in CA will be around $10Mil. I can live off the residuals of the rest. Maybe use some of that to start a company.

2 million (totally net worth) Cause CD jobs are harder to find. Also ageism.

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