If You Were Unemployed, But Had A Hefty Savings Of 10K, In What Ways Would You Approach Your Job Search Differently?

PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 67 points –

The point is not to chill and just burn through the savings and not work. How would having that much money saved, change the way you look for jobs?

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hefty savings of 10k

That is not a "hefty savings."

You want to have enough savings for about 3 months expenses, for just such an occasion, so I'd just do my normal job hunt here

That's what I was thinking. $10,000 for me is about 2-3 months of expenses. Of course, if I lost my job and knew things were going to be tight, I'd cut back on spending. I could probably get that $10,000 to stretch to 4-5 months, but it still wouldn't make me relax my job search much.

Now, if I had $100,000 in the bank, I'd be quite a bit more relaxed in my job search. Give me $1,000,000 in the bank and I'd question if I even needed to find a job. $10,000,000 in the bank and I'd retire and live off of the interest.

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