Couple months or so.

5-6 months with no changes in lifestyle, longer if switch from good beer to Natty light and start eating cheap.

A couple of years, maybe 3 if I sell things like my car.

But it’s gorgeous here.

Well, you asked, so the math is about 20 years if I sell the house and liquidate stocks and live on $40,000 a year. That’s without selling 401k. Sounds like I’m not too bad off, but I’ve been out of college since last century, so it’s a lot of careful planning and heavy duty savings that’s afforded us a good cushion…

I could go six months or so, comfortably, without changing a thing. There are several items that I could eliminate if needed (and probably should anyway) to stretch that out quite a bit.

I live in LA, and it’s tough, even sharing a spot with a recruiter brother. Rent is getting higher, and I’ve never been so stressed in my life.

Until someone in her family is in a serious accident or gets seriously ill. Then that year shrinks to what, two months, tops?

Might make it to tomorrow.

About a year, at a low-normal burn rate before I’d have to break into my 401(k) or liquefy other assets. Yes, I realize I’m massively lucky.

I have about 6k in savings, which sounds like a lot, but my monthly expenses are slightly over 1k (some of which I could lower but most of the fat is things like hulu ... at 7$ a month, that’s not much in savings).

Depends on healthcare. Other than healthcare, I could go a full year without having to make any changes. My house is largely off the grid, so my expenses would be food, mortgage, and things like internet/tv/phone, all of which are manageable with my passive income. At the end of a year or so, I might need to take on a…

I was born as a straight white male. I hit the genetic jackpot.

I hear you. I absolutely take credit for my own success, especially considering where I came from. I worked damned hard to get where I am, while many others around me did not. From that perspective, I mean “lucky” more as “fortunate.” I am very fortunate to have a safety net that others don’t.

its Gawker, but with writers of color!

Last time I was “un-employed” was from February 2008 to July 2010. I sold all my stock and that gave me about $2000. The company had I worked for fought me getting unemployment compensation, so that was out. I keep a month’s pay in savings. Applied to go back to college and got some grants and loans. Got a temp…

Two weeks.

I grew up on powdered milk and government cheese and eviction notices as a kid, so I know what it’s like for the answer to this question to be, “I don’t know, a week?” I’m fortunate enough now to have been in the same job long enough to have a 401(k) that I could drain that could buy me some time. Even still, I have…

Nice! With the “hart” begging me to pretentiously correct you. You give good troll sir!

I wish I was in school. You can use trump to argue your grades.