I'm surprised there is not a a good deal of healthcare workers on the forum. Unless I am not seeing it, the majority seem to be tech related.
A traveling nurse, for instance, seems like the perfect ERE job. You keep the base necessities in a suitcase, travel place to place on per diem, make more money than a regular nurse through those contracts (and most RNs make above the median U.S. income), and be done in your 5-10 years for all-out FI. Not to mention this is not a job that is susceptible to A.I. and with how demographics are trending in most developed countries (too many old, not enough young), there will be a growing demand for this work in the 21st century. The cost of a nursing license and education can be done at the community college level as well.
Anyone else in this field can post more? One thought I have is that as tech winds down hiring entry-level workers (due to AI replacement and increased offshoring), this field could potentially be the next go-to for FI seekers. Maybe that is a prediction.
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I have often thought the same, although its not a job which has ever appealed to me. There was a forum member called Bingeworker who spent his entire career semi-retired as a part-time/contract nurse. Canadian I believe. There may be ancillary non-patient treating careers in medicine which would offer similar flexibility and benefits.
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It may have something to do that ERE is most appealing to INTJs, who also happen to more often be engineers rather than nurses.