Suck at the public teat?
Draw SS as long as it lasts and get my little part time consulting business going
Job has sucked all it can from me.
I was called in to the office today.
My bullsh*t tolerance has been decreasing.
Wife is freaking a little
Congrats. It will work out, but it also means living less high on the hog. Some wives will deal with that better than others. Just remind her that on the right entitlement programs some folks pull down the equivalent of a 60K salary in take home. Hopefully you paid down debt and refinanced any mortgage to the 3% rates. You may also want to consider getting divorced so you both look even poorer to the public trough. . and make sure you do a C-Corp when you start consulting. Its more paperwork, but worht it because you look like both a crony and a poor indentured sap employee at the same time.
This choice is going to come to all of us eventually. The recession is hitting businesses, so they demand more from each employee rather than pay the costs of hiring another. Meanwhile the Fed takes more from you in terms of taxes while insulting you with every policy and word. Everyone's BS tolerance is decreasing. As some point, you just walk off the job.
However, you probably shouldn't have given notice. In all likelihood our careers ( such as they have been ) are over, and we are at the last (salaried) job we will hold. You should have just not gone in, and counted the number of paychecks that kept coming. It would probably take them 3 months to accumulate enough evidence to fire you.
My buddy worked for a State Government and had 3 people in his group. One didn't show up 80% of the time. The 20% of the time he was there, he ran a business on the side and watched YouTube videos. So the other two were asked to cover his shifts. No, he wasn't fired. It was just too damn hard to fire him. Eventually a layoff came up, and of course the useless third was the headcount lost - but he wasn't fired, so he still gets his 99 weeks of unemployment.
Gaming the system and acting immorally has now got to be our mode of operation. After all you are either a looter or a sucker. Honest Man isn't an option. Yes, everyone acting that way will bring down the system, but that is the point. Let it Burn.
