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Gumburcules t1_j9cnnvk wrote

Reply to comment by Agitated-Reality9068 in Do you all have stories of people who quit the typical DC corporate/political career and pursued something else? by [deleted]

You get a lot of freedom to take risks and make less money when you've been making biglaw salary for a couple decades.

That's definitely the common thread in this thread: "I used all the money I made in my high-stress/high-pay job to subsidize my low-stress/low-pay work." Not a lot of "I was making $70k and now I'm an organic basket weaver" stories because those people don't have the luxury of dropping out of the rat race.

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