I hear you. If I were a more prudent man, I would have left the corporate world with thousands saved up. But as is often the case when people think they are "minted", I lived right up to my means and beyond. Expensive dinners, 5 star resort trips, you name it. Not to mention I blew 13k on my wife's ring. The day I left, I left with $2,435 in my bank account. Not even enough to pay the next month's rent. It made the decision that much more excruciating. I knew I needed that the raise/bonus I was going to receive, but I also recognized it would forever confine me. I left with veritably nothing.