Trader Joes offers amazing health insurance to employees averaging at least 32 hours a week, over a period of 6 months. It's re-evaluated every 6 months. This is basically FT, because their shifts are 7.25 hours a pop. So you need to do a 5th day every few weeks fairly consistently to hit the threshold.
Interesting thread and discussion.
I had a high paying and stressful job, which I left over a year ago to travel (joke's on me, huh?). The problem with this job (and others before it) was that the "working hours" were blurry, I would be thinking about work in the middle of the night, on weekends, when in the company of family and friends, and it never felt like my time was my own. When I started off my career in retail, I would punch in and out, and even in a management position I felt like I could leave the work, at work.
Ultimately I chose to leanFIRE on a <$15k/yr budget, which obviously is not enough to live off of comfortably for 60+ years. A few failsafe's in the plan;
1) $15k is @ 3% WR, jumping to 4-5% increases available spending to $20-25k/yr
2) I planned to take a year or two off to travel and decompress and find a second calling so to speak
3) Even a PT job at a place like Trader Joes, earning $15/hr would cover 60% of my spending, working only 2 days a week
4) There is a very high likelihood that by leanFIRIng @ 32 years old, I will fall into some other paid work which will bring my WR to 0% or even have a few years where I add to the $500k stache.
5) DW is still planning on working another 5-10 years
6) As
@ChpBstrd pointed out, ERE type approach is extremely resilient. With a WOOF/Workaway/housesitting stint, I can easily get my expenses below $15k/yr for a year or two of bad economic times without having to find professional work
7) Getting back into the workforce is my worst case, by working more years at my high stress and high paid job I was guaranteed to take years off of my life.