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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just left my biglaw job to stay at home. I was making $560k. My husband makes much more than I do and we have a lot of savings, so it wasn’t a big deal financially, but I still have a lot of angst about it. I actually love(d) my job, and it makes me sad that it will be very difficult to find a path back. [/quote]

Do you take any steps to protect yourself financially, like a postnup?  How do you get comfortable that you're not saving in your own name anymore, for example, no more 401k contributions, and possibly, no more control over how future income is saved and invested because you don't have a paycheck?  Asking because I'm hung up on these issues and still working.   [/quote]

I mean, I have $1.5m in my own name, half in 401k and the other half in liquid brokerage accounts. As for the rest, we are still a team and would still have a conversation about future investments (mostly boring mutual fund stuff), it would be weird to fully cut me out of that conversation? And I’ve only just recently quit but I feel confident I could find at least a $100k job if I needed to go back in future as I quit at a reasonable senior level. [/quote]

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