IH POLL: Quit your job or planning to? Let's create a mega-resource.

This is something that surprisingly isn't talked about much or at least isn't gathered into 1 place for people to read and benchmark against.

Questions:
❓: How long have you been full-time as a maker?
❓: When you left your day job, what did your savings look like?
❓: What did your monthly expenses look like?
❓: How many months of runway did/do you have?
❓: Do you think there is a minimum runway one should have?
❓: In regards to runway, what's the "no-brainer, go do it" amount?
❓: What would you do different?
❓: What's your plan?

I'll start:

1. Not full-time yet, will be leaving end of 2020. Dec 31st to be exact!

2. Probably around $200k savings

3. Typically between $3-$4k expenses per month

4. At these numbers, looks to be around... 40 months (with padding)

5. Minimum # of months: 12

6. No brainer # of months: 24

7. Wouldn't do anything different as of now. Will re-assess post December.

8. Plan:
   Likely taking a 3-month trip overseas to do some exploring in 2021. (Haven't done much travel) and will be 30 next year. Personally want to explore Europe a bit. Will be working during that time but mostly focused on exploring and learning cultures.

p.s - obviously this is all subjective. Want to hear others opinions and approaches and hopefully this becomes a MEGA THREAD for Indie Hackers to benchmark against for a logical approach to making the leap.

I think it's especially important to find the average ideals so that people don't make the jump with 2 months of runway, unless of course their project is booming and growing like wildfire, which typically isn't the case.