I used to be a manager in social care earning £50k but in reality was working almost double my 37 hours without shift allowances, always on call, spending all my money on childcare, convenience food, cleaner, gardener etc so decided to cut back financially and now work part time for myself as a VA/trainer/writer in the health/wellbeing and charity sector (0-3 days a week, about 25k a year) and part time as a manager in a charity (2 days a week, 10k a year after tax and pension). I'm working on developing a passive income stream now as well. Although some of my work (and pay) is unpredictable, I'm glad I don't have all my eggs in one basket at the moment.