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We're glad you're with us. Zach is with us in Seattle to start off this hour. Hi, Zach. Welcome to the Ramsey show.

Hey, thanks for having me. You guys are so my heroes and it's so cool to be on the show.

I had a question for you guys. So I currently work at a tech company and I'm looking to make a career change.

The problem is I make really good money where I'm out right now and what I'm wanting to go into is a significant pay cut.

So I make about 110,000 per year right now with potential to move up. I just started the company. So there's there's a lot of growth there.

But I not a fan of what I do. I took 10 Coleman career assessment, giving some great ideas and what I'm wanting to go into is firefighting, which starting salaries about 30,000 less a year.

And we're currently in baby step two and we've got with snowballing things. It'll probably take a year or less to get everything paid off from kind of the snowball calculator we did on your guys website.

So my question is, should I wait to do any sort of career change until I've got baby step two taken care of three to six months and savings fund and then a down payment for a house while I have the higher paying career.

Or do I take the risk and go to a lower paying job and kind of take longer to get, you know, our finances all set up and a down payment for a house because that's ultimately where we'd like to go.

Does that make sense?

So you want to abandon a perfectly safe computer and run into burning houses.

Yeah. I worked from home and I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm out and I'm like, I want to do something that's meaningful to me and that sounds a heck of a lot more meaningful.

Have you have you gone on a ride along yet? Are you do you have buddies here firefighters?

Yeah, so I got a buddy that's a firefighter. I've been doing a lot of research into the career itself, kind of what the day to day looks like and all of it kind of fires me out.

But people I've talked to have loved it. Everyone that's kind of in public service. Like an uncle, that's a copy.

I wish I had been a firefighter. But a lot of positive things about it from the kind of the research I've been doing so far.

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