What if the shit hits the fan in 10 years, and you crash two cars, your house burns down, you both get a treatable form of cancer…etc. Can you rejoin the high fliers if if you leave, or are you done?
Because if there is someway you could keep your foot in the door. Like contract work or consulting or something, I would do that. Because, at the end of the day, money doesn’t make you happy, but in the hands of a wise man, it certainly makes life easier.
I have contemplated leaving engineering many times, buying a cabin in the woods,and getting a job in the mountains, cutting wood, or snow surveying or something. But at the end of the day, I know that will bore me too.
