New guy. I'm 34, my name's Mark. I've been a professional audio engineer for about a decade now and have been extremely successful at it. The downside is I'm a workaholic, regularly doing insane hours (60-80 hour weeks for months at a time), and my health is in pretty bad shape. I recently realized I have a lot of cash piled up (in a 'Stash as you folks call it, I'll learn!), and I have enough to retire now if I set up investments properly, throttle down our expenses and change our way of life and way of thinking.
So my wife and I are now absorbing all of this, learning what it means to be Mustachian, and we're making a plan to land this crazy plane over the next year or so. I don't want to walk away from the job yet for two reasons:
01) I've got a pair of big paydays (project completion bonuses) coming in the next 15 months, and they're pretty sure things, as I've received quite a few of these in the last five years
02) I feel like we should start cutting our expenses and adapting now before I cut off the cash firehose, rather than cut it off, screw up and find ourselves in a bad place
So that's who I am. Happy to be here, excited to learn and shooting to retire at 35 :)