I am treading this path it seems, and I was wondering if others are doing something similar. What are your experiences? Tips? Ideas? Pitfalls?
I bailed on the last "career" job in early 2014. At the time I was extremely burnt out and just wanted to take a break for a year and figured I would sort out what comes next afterwards. Marginally FI (by my standards, anyway) mostly due to being early 40s with two kids in grade school (a couple dinks would not have been marginal). After 8 months off, I fell into a contract/consulting gig via a buddy and it is scheduled to run to the end of this year. Pays well, does not require full time effort, and I work from my patio if I wish. I have kind of decided that I would like to continue earning some income, but I am not willing to do a full time cube job if at all possible. So I have started sniffing around. Yesterday I applied for a promising looking part time, remote, flexible job listing that matches my skills very, very well and I have a phone interview on Monday.
In the meantime, I plan to continue having time to do what I enjoy, spend more time with family, and have a better life than in the 20 years of my career.
Anyone else doing this?