Gap Year or FIRE
Anyone else out there burnt out after working from home this last year? Feel like I worked more than I ever have in my life and it’s all just starting to feel like a blur of wasted time. Not sure about you, but when I was a kid I never aspired to stare at a computer screen 12 hours a day. Seriously considering quitting tech to take a gap year or just going straight FIRE, move to a European country where it’s at least half the price of the states and potentially doing some day trading for extra income. Anyone on here taken a gap year or done FIRE have an insights?
How old are you? Single or family man/woman?
No family, nothing holding me down by choice.
I’m taking a remote job and moving to a LCOL area. Building a house on a bunch of land, then FIRE after ~2 years
Dope plan
How do you plan to move to a European country?
Within 6mo
Yea but with a visa? Which country in the EU?
How much do you have saved up? If you’re not fully ready for FIRE, you’d likely take a big QOL hit by doing it early. A gap year to recharge would probably be more feasible
Enough to get $60k year est. return on investments.
Nice! That’s not bad. Personally I’m aiming for 100k with a 3% safe withdrawal rate, so id go with a gap year. But if you’re that burned out, 60k is definitely livable
What does FIRE stand for?
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Gap year and try to enter the job market as a contractor and dictate your own terms