I’m in my 40s. I’ve been working since I was 13. I worked right out of high school, didn’t go to college until my 30s, worked all through school, and have always struggled to make ends meet, despite working 40-60+ hour weeks. I bought a house in 2021 with very low interest and although the monthly payments were more than I could afford, I made them diligently for 2 years now. I moved for a job that I thought would be better and it ended up being worse. I couldn’t find a renter so I’m selling the house to take some time off; and between the rise in home prices and my invested principal I’m about to get a check for like 70k. Im thinking of quitting my new current job due to toxic chemical exposure. And I’m having a really hard time reconciling the fact that the first time in 30 years that I will be not working is the first time in the over four decades of my life that I will have the most amount of money in my bank account that I have ever had. I feel like I don’t want to squander it. But I also feel like going back to work will somehow end up doing that.