Hi Mustachioed Ones,
I've read MMM obsessively and am making small steps to do better, although I'm many years from FI, let alone ER. I'm 44 and have been in the same job for 12 years. In the last few weeks, my always somewhat contentious relationship with my bosses took a nosedive, and I'm afraid there may be some backroom plotting to get rid of me (like firing me, not murdering me; I guess there's always an upside if you look hard enough :).
I'm trying to play out some scenarios in my head. I'm single, so there's no SO to pitch in and help out while I looked for other work if I did get fired. Has anybody faced this before? (I searched for threads on being fired, but they didn't turn up quite this issue). Has anybody been fired before they were financially independent and if so, what did you have to do to survive? I'm in a small town where there aren't a lot of professional jobs, so if I wanted to stay here, I'd have to get creative. I'd love to hear some stories of people who survived something similar.
I wish I had known how much I would hate the world of work when I was in my 20s--I would have saved more instead of buying stupid shit.