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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For over $400k salary, I would not quit. I can pay for many helpers or pay for live in nanny to run errands around the house. It seems like that OP can live fine with one income from her spouse, but I still think $400k is a lot of money to give up. I would only quit if it is due to health issues or family matters that need immediate care and attention. [/quote]

I gave up a salary like this.  If you can afford it long term (and that last part is important), I would do it based on your post, OP.  People on this board are money obsessed, but the point of money is to support your life not to control it.

People also overestimate the benefits paid help.  Maybe that works for some families, but we personally don't like having anyone living with us.  We admittedly don't have a huge house, but we're also just homebodies and introverted and don't always want a nanny or housekeeper around, no matter how much we like them.  Grocery delivery sucks, they substitute weird things and bring rotten fruit.  We've never been able to find a way to outsource dinners that seems efficient and results in quality, homemade food.  I could go on, but none of the outsourcing ever felt like a huge benefit to us, just more stuff to manage.

One of the great benefits to me of having a very high salary like that is that I could do it short term and buy myself out of a stressful existence longer term.  Once we'd saved enough to have a solid start on retirement savings, enough for kids' college, updates to our older home that made it what we wanted longer term, it was easy to give up.  It's priceless for us to have a spouse that can manage everything on the home front and reduces stress for the entire family in running the day to day.

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+100000

I’m a working mom with a close to similar salary as OP and saving all I can so I can exit this rat race.

I can’t wait to hang with my kids, play tennis during the day, cook nice meals in my gorgeous kitchen, start a garden and do whatever I want. I can’t imagine never having to enter PTO again. My husband will be thrilled for me to simply enjoy my life and not have to work.

Most people on here are lying to themselves about how much they like working. If they won the lottery they would quit their jobs so fast and never look back.

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