Yeah I quit my job. You will have to make sure you have 3-6 months of expenses saved up for when you are unemployed.
And Fyi, I'm not a millionaire. I was making about 120-150k per year when I quit my job. I had about $70,000 saved up. I took a $80,000 loan (people are willing to lend you that amount if you make 120k+/year). So nowhere close to being a millionaire.
Quote from: Purushrottam on March 04, 2018, 02:57:45 AMYeah I quit my job. You will have to make sure you have 3-6 months of expenses saved up for when you are unemployed.
And Fyi, I'm not a millionaire. I was making about 120-150k per year when I quit my job. I had about $70,000 saved up. I took a $80,000 loan (people are willing to lend you that amount if you make 120k+/year). So nowhere close to being a millionaire.
You're still really well off. A lot of people don't have a 100k+ income.
I'll be quitting my job in the near future to dedicate a year to CLL. Been considering changing jobs anyway, no girlfriend right now, so there's nothing keeping me here anyway. Onward and upward, no pun intended!
Im from a Scandinavian country and here the government will pay 80% of your salary of you are not able to work because of medical treatment. The government only wants to know if you are able to work, not why you are in the situation you are.
Quote from: tallertree on March 04, 2018, 09:38:27 AMIm from a Scandinavian country and here the government will pay 80% of your salary of you are not able to work because of medical treatment. The government only wants to know if you are able to work, not why you are in the situation you are.
Lucky. I will ask for danish or norwegian nationality then
My company offers generous leaves of absence, and in the US there's a law called FMLA that protects your job while you're on medical leave. Now cosmetic procedures generally don't qualify, but see if there's other things you can work on during recovery, for example back pack that can be helped by PT. Note, this is an unpaid leave.
I'm fortunate to be able to write computer code, which if you have an inclination for, you can pick up and become pretty good at in about a year. So if the FMLA thing falls through, I can work remotely.
But the larger question is, how do you pay for CLL? Having a job is only *one* option. Getting loans is another. In the US for example, SoFi offers 7-year loans up to $100k with 10% APR interest. Realize that $100 is way more important to you now, than $20k / year over the next 7 years. You can make that happen much more easily than producing $100k right now. For example if you invest $10k in a basket of promising cryptocurrencies and the 2017 pattern repeats itself, you're set.
Back to jobs - nowadays, there's a lot of work that can be done remotely. https://remoteok.io is a really good site to find remote jobs. They tend to be centered around IT, though there are some other areas as well:
Anyway, there are 25+ other sites for finding remote work - check them out.
The even larger question, is how do you reduce the cost of living & CLL? One answer is to live in an area with a lower cost of living, during CLL if your doctor is there, or during the recovery. NomadList.com has a lot details on many cities in the world - cost of living, healthcare, walkability, quality of life, safety etc. Moving might be a big "move" so to speak, but CLL is an even bigger one, and when people make a major change, they tend to be more open to make other changes following it. If you quit your job to do CLL, moving to a place with low cost of living and taking remote gigs can be a reasonable things to do.
I'm cryptomillionnaire, I can continue to trade with litteraly only one eye and 1 finger to click from the bedroom so no problem 
Quote from: MoonWalk on March 06, 2018, 02:24:15 PMI'm cryptomillionnaire, I can continue to trade with litteraly only one eye and 1 finger to click from the bedroom so no problem
I'd be a bit more impressed if you traded with both your eyes closed, in your sleep. Have you written any trading bots?
I believe this is an important topic as well, and not discussed very often. Here is how I did it. For starters I am 30, so I've had a few years to save. I saved up about enough for the surgery itself, then I took an equity loan out on my house, to cover all of the additional expenses. I quit my job because I wasn't really happy with it and needed a change anyway. I believe I have enough experience in my field to find another job relatively quickly after I'm done consolidating. If it takes awhile, I can always drive for Uber or Lyft in the meantime. Everyone's situation is different, but there is a way as long as you want it bad enough. Younger patients will probably have a harder time coming up with the money if they don;t have their parent's support. I wish I could have done it 10 years ago, but to pay for the surgery here is the US, late 20's/early 30's is a good age to have the surgery.
Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on March 07, 2018, 03:35:07 AMI'd be a bit more impressed if you traded with both your eyes closed, in your sleep. Have you written any trading bots?
I used too, but it's not that worth it, even if it's fun making money doing nothing.
I use bot signals tho 
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