I didn’t work for about 5 years and for the most part I loved it. After a while I missed interacting with people, and after a while some people started to view me as just a wife not even able to have a career. That became a little annoying.
If my husband and I were given enough money to be financially secure with room to even lose some of it and still be financially secure, I think he would dump his job and we would try some business that hopefully would make money and would be fun.
If the money was just enough to feel like we probably can make it until we die, but if something unexpected happened we might be right on money in our old age, we’d probably still keep working at something.
The question is a little tricky since my husband starts a new job Monday and he is very excited about it. I have a feeling he would want to try the job at least for a while before saying he would leave. Back in the day when he loved his job he used to say if he won the lottery he would keep working. Then years later he had a job he want as happy in and was ready to quit at a moments notice.
I need at least $10 million and I’m ready for us to quit everything and feel secure. Although, as I said I doubt we would completely quit working altogether. $3 million and I’m ready to take a risk and pursue our dream. Less than that would still be welcome and helpful, but not life changing in that I wouldn’t feel secure for the rest of my life not to work.