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Ask HN: Quitting a well paid job

I currently make around $300k/year in a software dev job that is unfortunately soul crushingly boring and bureaucratic.I'd love to leave and have a go at a startup or possibly move into freelancing, but I keep putting it off almost solely because of the money.How do you guys who have made the jump make the decision to leave a situation like this?Within 1 or 2 years I could be very well set up...

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