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I grew up fairly rich but my dad lost it all when I was in my teens. Now through being prudent and relatively frugal, I find my self at 52 on the cusp of fire. My dad is 79 (mom passed), and he still works part time. Since he lost his money, he's been supported by his part time job but also very generous monthly stipends from me and my 2 siblings. (they're both rich and truthfully give him more than I do ).

I am not as wealthy as my siblings but obviously pretty good as i can retire early, but my dad is always asking about my financial business and I brush him off. He's 79 and still spends money wildly (he has my siblings buy him business class tickets when he visits, he still shops alot even though everything he buys is the same version of something he already has amongst other things).
Its been 30+ years since we started supporting him, and he still has not savings today. I can't understand how he hasn't planned ahead all these years and expects us to support him til he dies, and his job won't last too much longer. I think he actually looks down on me alittle because he thinks I don't have as much money as my siblings, but I don't tell him anything because I know he'll ask for more money if he knew how much I do have.

Has anyone dealt with this, and what would you do in my situation?

Been unemployed for a while, I just passed the VP hiring round with SVP hiring manager and the CTO, they had told me they were finishing interviews that week but i felt that they went well. They pretty much immediately passed me to the head of human resources which was a short interview at the end of which he asked me my salary range and said he'll pass back to the SVP on what to do with next steps. Its been 3 days that I haven't heard back from them yet, but believe maybe they have some internal approvals to finalize?

What do you think my chances of getting an offer is? I'm pretty nervous

Been unemployed for a while, I just passed the VP hiring round with SVP hiring manager and the CTO, they had told me they were finishing interviews that week but i felt that they went well. They pretty much immediately passed me to the head of human resources which was a short interview at the end of which he asked me my salary range and said he'll pass back to the SVP on what to do with next steps. Its been 3 days that I haven't heard back from them yet, but believe maybe they have some internal approvals to finalize?

What do you think my chances of getting an offer is? I'm pretty nervous

Like i go take a dump every morning when i wake up and at least twice more during the day. So much more regular than in the US. Is it because of the food here? Does anyone experience this?

I'm American and retired, slow travelling asia the last year, and just noticed how much less angry I am. Been to thailand, vietnam, china etc, and generally people are so much more chill, happy, keep their opinions to themselves etc.

When i was back to visit last week, i noticed how people are just angry, always telling you what you're doing wrong, move faster, agitated etc. Wondering what about the US just produces so many angry people?

I'm not saying there aren't angry, unhappy people elsewhere, but i notice it MUCH more in the US

I'm 53, single, no kids, $2.5m NW, VHCOL/HCOL area, with a $8k a month spend. I lost my job recently at amazon, and considering retiring. Amazon almost killed me the politics and wlb was so bad. I'm interviewing right now with a much chiller company for a senior role that could pay well and have decent wlb.

My motivation is i think i may have 1 more job in me, and if i can work there for 2-3 more years, i can guarentee a really nice work optional life. ($8k is current spend, but would love to be able to spend 12k a month ideally)

I'm a bit torn as technically i can retire with the 4% rule (96k yearly spend), and using ficalc with dynamic withdrawal, i could go up to 120k per year spend with about 90% success rate if i include SS.

What would you do if you were me?

edit - $2.5m made up of $1.55m retirement accounts, 900k cash/hysa/brokerage, 50k car and collectibles. Health is good, but could always be better LOL.