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I quit my full-time job at 26. Now I work remotely 10 to 20 hours a week while traveling with my partner

My weeks are planned around which cafés I'll visit, long lunch breaks, spending time in nature, painting, and going to the spa. I schedule my work around that — not my life around my work. I rejected ...
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I quit a $250,000 job, thinking it would be easy to find another one. After a year of unemployment, I wish I could go back and shake myself.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jesse Tervooren, a 39-year-old former HR executive based in Vancouver, Washington. It's been edited for length and clarity. When I quit my ...