RE: Start With Freedom — Move Towards Money
I totally agree. While I ultimately ended up in another 9-5 job, it's one that I love, and really, the only one that I would have ever chosen.
To get there, I had to give up the secure job with the health insurance and the 401K. The job that had me fantasizing, every morning, of dying in a fiery car crash.
I knew I only had enough money saved to take eight months off, but I also knew that if I didn't give myself the mental space to unwind, explore other options, and tend to some personal family matters that would have otherwise unravelled themselves to our detriment, I wasn't going to have much to look forward to in life.
Once I quit, we were able to take care of the family stuff, we discovered Steemit, and other opportunities seemed to appear out of nowhere.
With eight months of savings (and a mindset of being able to organize + control spending for that long), you were way WAY ahead of the curve. Sounds like the exact example of a success story, since you spent all that time saving and practicing the self-control it would take to find a job you could be happy with.
My approach is more "slash and burn" in comparison lol