Before - increasingly insane hours in a highly niche financial regulatory optimization software firm.
After - may not be considered during my period of non-compete / self-imposed sabbatical.
The skillset is, thankfully, highly transmutable and sought after. Other regulatory firms have been attempting to snag me for years, and currently an automotive, a soda manufacture, and Amazon is also attempting to sway me. Assuming I'm willing to stay an employee, it'll go the the firm that satiates certain working condition criteria (let them bid against one another on this, pure pay is so much less important than time).
With that said, I have enough capital saved/invested to build my own business without impacting my familys lifestyle