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Agitated-Reality9068 t1_j9b5tdv wrote

I feel like every bakery owner I've met in this town used to be a lawyer.

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Gumburcules t1_j9cnnvk wrote

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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