Has anyone taken on a less stressful role?

ParalyticPoison · 2018-12-02T21:17:52+00:00

Here is my philosophy, especially with a "grass is greener on the other side" thing you have in your mind right now.

All jobs suck, some less than others, but you don't want to be there but you feel you need to be for that paycheck.

Very few jobs out there are going to give you what you want, depending on where you live, 120-130K a year is VERY good pay. My advice would be to stick around for at least a few years and make your money, then use that money to invest in dividend stocks and retire early on that.

This advice is from only the info you have provided, no idea if you are actually saving 80-90K of that amount every year or more like 20-30K. Unless you are on the verge of suicide with this job, I would suggest toughing it out and retiring early on that large stack of money, with the use of minimalism and smart investments of course.

DangZagnut · 2018-12-02T21:55:21+00:00

I stopped working at max for a job making half as much, to a job making half of that.

Then I stopped working at all, because fuck it, my needs are cheap.

Now I’m drinking beer watching Sunday night football for lunch. I have a week to go 1400 miles, I camped out in the desert last night, and I’ll camp out in the snowy mountains tonight. Zero stress. I have to go whopping 209 miles a day. I’ll probably get drunk instead.

That having been said, you can’t go back in time and make money, so long term budget accordingly.

ownleader · 2018-12-02T21:26:29+00:00

I switched career, like you I was in the corporate world making a lot of money and there was a huge amount of stress (I was living the American Dream while being married); and then I quit it all and now I have my own very small company doing something that I love (creative) and making a fraction of what I was making then. But I am financially "sound".

fezha · 2018-12-02T21:57:15+00:00

This is exactly my situation. Almost.

I'm sticking it out a couple more years and then taking a different role.

If you plan a way out, you simply do your time and move on. Don't rut in that position. Use whatever time you own to plan carefully and don't let people get in your way. There's always a way around things.

I have excellent benefits, decent pay and a very strong pension program. I decided to not take supervisor responsibilities becsuse it's dumb and doesn't pay enough.

I'm doing my time and moving on.

caem123 · 2018-12-03T00:15:35+00:00

Don't leave the job until you save enough to be self-sufficient. If you change jobs for less stress you'll likely find out there isn't less stress in the next job.

theoracleofosiris · 2018-12-03T01:02:24+00:00

I’ve cut down my hours by half. I’m never going back to full time.

[deleted] · 2018-12-02T21:14:31+00:00

If you have the option definitely do it! I'm looking to do something similar, but my employer doesn't really support part time.

801735 · 2018-12-02T21:17:44+00:00

Has anyone left their role for a more stress free one since going your own way?

From IT to less IT (but still). Best decision ever. More gardening, slower pace, no non-stop guilt/need to keep crap on my mind. Less money but still everything covered just hoarding less in exchange for more quality life-time. Reading less tech and more misc now, watch more misc docus compared to non-stop tech or sex dynamics ones before. For me it was worth it, but it's about values of the individual, perhaps others might think differently, didn't ask anyone, tho.

DWShimoda · 2018-12-02T22:06:08+00:00

Yup did the switch from employee to (almost entirely "remote") consultant-contractor thing for a couple years.

Then "retired." The transition was GOOD in many ways -- not only financially, but also in "recentering" myself in terms of HOW I wanted to live (instead of trying to squeeze living into the crevices that "work" left me) -- made it much easier to actually ENJOY life being "retired" (and working on my own shit, things {even occasional for-pay consulting things} that interest me) instead of "climbing the walls."

Ironically not only did I not make less in gross pay (basically just giving up the "employee benefits"*) while working about 1/2 the time total...

But I also found out that in NET pay terms I reaped windfall, because a huge portion portion of my after tax pay had previously been spent on commuting and "knock on" things that inevitably result FROM commuting and working "on site" (at an employer office, etc). See... it's not JUST the cost of gasoline, it's also the wear & tear on your vehicles, the added depreciation of the extra mileage, the fact that you have a tendency to eat a LOT of meals either "out at restaurants" (sit down/fast food/other), and even meals you eat at home are generally more costly (and shittier) because of time constraints, lack of being able to really "plan" your meals, stock a larder, etc.

And that's not to mention all of the "miscellany" you end up blowing cash on here & there in seemingly unimportant/small dollar per transaction ways (McD's or Quickie-Mart coffee/cappuccino, soda & candy bars from some vending machine, even just "crap" that you end up buying because you "stop & shop" on the way home, etc) -- because that ALL adds up (faster and higher than you think... $1 or $5 a day (on avg) in miscellaneous crap ends up being a couple grand (out of net after tax funds) that just went "poof" and disappeared.

* Which of course as a single man are really NOT worth even what they cost the company that employs you, much less what they try to tell you they are "worth" -- because via those "group benefits" (health insurance etc) single men employees are effectively subsidizing all of the women & married w/ children employees.

ownleader · 2018-12-03T00:54:40+00:00

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rooster-one4 · 2018-12-03T01:54:32+00:00

Sort of. When I was married and moving into a divorce, I changed jobs from a site manager to just a keyboard operator, because I went from 5 hours of meetings a day and herding kittens the rest, to just worrying about one system with a few hundred devices and someone else in charge of making decisions.

The funny part was that I negotiated a higher pay for the technical role, then negotiated down the price for more days off, so I essentially had every Friday off unless it was busy (which was rarely, network changes aren't made before a weekend). I used those days off to unwind, destress, and have a weekly date with myself every Friday :) It was a good call, made the same essentially, with a lot more downtime.

2018-12-03T02:27:09+00:00

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[deleted] · 2018-12-03T16:16:19+00:00

I did a year ago. It was a slight pay cut, however health is wealth. My previous job had a lot of fact paced physical labor with a high stress environment. Where I am now is mostly clerical, and I actually got a pay raise and am making more than ever now.

Has anyone taken on a less stressful role?

Comments

Congrats on cutting the umbilical & welcome to the club!

Yup did the switch from employee to (almost entirely "remote") consultant-contractor thing for a couple years.

BTW... RE Food/Meals

Title	Has anyone taken on a less stressful role?
Author	ownleader
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Date	December 2, 2018 9:12 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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