Walking away from a job in this situation.

- We are in our 30s.

- Wife is on 200K/ year job which she loves and can never be fired due to a national tenure clause.

- Left my job a year ago (have not looked since then)

- Our household expenses including monthly mortgage: $4k. My individual expense is really around $1k/month.

- Monthly household savings after the $4k/month expense: averages $5k-6k.

- Cash saving: $100k

-Our Property equity: $400k - $700k. Mortgage of $500k is in her name (putting a foreigner's name on it incurs stamp duty) but I have made a substantial down payment and co - paid mortgage up until last year. Property currently valued at $1.2M - $1.5M.

I have a $500k liquid brokerage, $250k pension fund (7%-10% average annual growth rate), notified that I am on the will for a $500k apartment in 15 years.

She has a $230k pension fund (7%-10%average annual growth rate) with $1.6k/ month employer contribution.

- House mortgage is the only debt.

My wife is Australian and I am Singaporean. We both have non - expensive hobbies. I have been shuttling between Australia and Singapore for her a few times a year. I am in Australia for the most part.
Been working extremely hard since 7 years old, studied physics and mathematics at the undergraduate before graduating from a graduate program in the Ivy. Worked in corporate for almost 10 years.
I want to walk away from corporate.

I've spoken to my wife and she has no issue with me being a stay - home husband or seeking recreational employment when I am ready. I have done various modelling on the math based on various cases and the body case works out reasonably OK.

What is the community's view on this?

Posted Aug 14, 2026, 5:57 AM UTC

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