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r/fatFIRE
The guilt part is what gets you, not the hours. When you see how the decisions actually get made it's impossible to unsee it My cousin left a director role at big hospital system for per diem clinical work about 2 years ago. Took a huge pay cut but says he actually sleep now. With your net worth you can afford to try it for a year and see if the sanity is worth the smaller paycheck
A $16 million net worth on $400k of annual spending is already a finished plan, yet the debate in this thread is whether burnout justifies giving up $1.1 million a year. The real lesson: once the math works, the only open question is what the money is for.