A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k
The math on this makes no sense at all.<p>&gt;<p>- Live off of $15k a year. Don&#x27;t buy a house. Don&#x27;t buy a fancy  car. Just save.<p>- Do this for a year.<p>- Land a job that makes you $100k a year. Save the rest. Max out your 401k contribution.<p>- Celebrate by living off of $30k a year.<p>- Do this for three years.<p>- Land a job that makes you $140k a year. Save the rest. Max out your 401k contribution. Get a Roth, put $5k a year into that.<p>- Celebrate by living off of $60k a year.<p>- Do this for three years. 
&gt;<p>He is talking about SAVING, $500,000.  Then needing to liquidate your 401k, just to take off a year?<p>If he is capable of living on 60k before this, he should be able to live almost 10 years just on his savings without liquidating the 401k.