As you've said, you have to *want* to do this for the next 5 years. Anything less and you're selling yourself and the company short.
This really is the key point for me.
The Group CEO has been taking his time to decide who is the person he trusts with this assignment. The company has treated me well these past 15 years. I really don’t want to leave on a sour note.
I know my consideration would not be reciprocated by the company but we all have to act by our own standards.
If I take this role I will have to give it my best and it will have to be for a reasonable amount of time. Maybe not 5 years. But I just want to make the decision with the mindset that it’s a 5 year decision.
I feel privileged to be in this great situation where I have so many options re: how to craft my life from here on out.
I am a bit of a dreamer and have lots of ideas of things I might do post FIRE.
DW lives in the now. My constant prattling about doing this and that post FIRE is not something DW can engage with. She finds it annoying. She just keeps saying “I don’t want to talk about next year or the year after, we need to work out what we are doing this weekend”.
It’s difficult to get her excited about all the possibilities as it is just too intangible for her. If I am going to make major life changes I have to be the one driving those decisions. DW will always opt for minor corrections over throwing out the rule book.
There is no doubt that FIRE is a risk, and there are consequences that will make life pretty uncertain for a while (eg: we will need to move to a cheaper city/ town but have no clear favourite) but feels to me like a risk worth taking given all that we could do with the additional freedom. I believe we have enough money, to be able to not feel to deprived.