Is anyone else terrified of the social stigma associated with long-term unemployment in midlife? This is literally the only reason I'm still in the workforce.

so I signed up just to comment on this. I am in a very similar boat. I got lucky in the stock market. Hit my mr. money mustache # or pretty close to it and am terrified about what to do. I have an ok job (way underpaid compared to new comers and senior staff) in engineering. I could honestly move and make 25-30% more but it's strange. I don't really need more money and somehow save about 25-50% of what I make. I am single though and I don't know what to do. Ideally I would quit and move to a tax free state for several months before selling (the only thing keeping me here in OH) right now is my job and extended family. I don't really want to travel and for a while thought I would "retire" to Disney and work part time as a minimum wage employee and talked myself out of it. It's strange going in to work. Work doesn't excite me anymore and I have been in a rut with a bad boss --who left. The current boss is good but if I switched states I would save almost a year's salary in taxes which would take me 10-15 years to save at my current savings rate. So I think I need to move but it's like move and do what, watch TV? I don't feel the motivation to start a new job/career (have been at my current job about 12 years which is apparently a long time in this profession). I don't want to flip houses or be a landlord. I have everything I want/need here and my personality/spending habits won't let me go crazy on a new house/car etc (I am a renter). I still coupon/groupon/ don't subscribe to cable etc but it's all choices that leave me happy.

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