Employee quiet quits after hitting his $2M savings goal at 40, accidentally gets 4 promotions and becomes a millionaire executive by doing less work: 'I became an expert at saying no'

We've all heard the term "quiet quitting," but this guy might be the only person who did it right. When he hit $2 million in assets at 40, he decided he was done with stress, ambition, and pretending to care about performance reviews. Instead of storming out of corporate America, he stayed put and started doing the bare minimum, delegating everything that crossed his desk, and saying no like it was a full-time job.

His work life became blissfully boring. His employees respected him, his managers loved him, and the promotions kept rolling in. A decade later, he's in the top four of his company, worth around $10 million, and somehow managed to achieve the dream of financial freedom without ever actually quitting.

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