That's a good idea. I go back a tick too much.
However, to be flat out honest, I think I've made up my mind and am getting out of tech. If I make a few adjustments, I don't really need much. Right now I've got $2500/mo coming in before I get out of bed, which will be up to $4k by late summer. And that's before any retirement payments from various things kick in, but that's 10-15 yrs away still.
Not a shitload, but more than enough to pay the bills and leave me with enough each month to be comfortable. So anything on top of that is straight pocket money for whatever.
The good thing is that affords me the opportunity to really do anything I damn well please. Whether that's part-time something, or whatever. I could volunteer somewhere a couple days a week if I wanted, and fish the rest. It's a reality that I didn't see coming at this point, even a month ago, but here it is. I've got enough runway to make it through 2026 now, and I think I'm going to sit on it until after the holidays and think it over after that. It's a big deal in my life path, but I can't just fuck off, I'd go crazy. Thinking I'll have to have a decision in my head somewhere around the end of May or first part of June, and then go from there.