everyone asks how much you need saved to quit. wrong number. savings run out. your exit number is what your life costs a month, next to what keeps coming in without the job. about a minute. nothing leaves this page unless you want it to.
after-tax money that actually goes out. round numbers are fine. the grey numbers are just hints, not yours.
not your paycheck. not savings. money that shows up next month if you never log in again. zero is a normal answer. that's the point.
has to show up every month, without a paycheck, before leaving stops being scary.
i'll send the one-page i used to watch the two numbers move, plus what i'd do first at your gap. that's it. no course.
"two numbers told me i could lose my job and be fine. neither one was my savings."
13 years in tech. october 2024 i got laid off on purpose, with severance. the reason it didn't scare me: what my life cost a month, next to what the houses sent me after they paid their own bills. when the second number got close to the first, the job stopped being a thing i needed.
savings are a runway. income is the ground. this page is the ground.
— jack · jackyen.com · @jack.yen