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Old 03-19-2026, 06:16 AM   #9
supafamous
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Originally Posted by Gerbs View Post
I'm < 10 years out to early retirement, pretty much coastFIRE'd, although not at your wealth level. Been on the FIRE movement since 18 years old, but I've been maximizing experiences over early retirement in the last 5 years.
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^How would you live your next 40-50+ years once you reach your early retirement milestone?
I'm at coastFIRE now (some call it semi-retirement) and am between 3-7 years away from being able to do full retirement (age 53-57) as long as Trump doesn't completely tank the stock market. Even in "full" retirement I'll probably keep the little business I'm building going but I just won't put as much effort into it (I work about 2-3 days a week now) - hopefully by then it's an easy 1 day a week job that brings in the pocket change that pays for my hobbies. I have a 50 year old pal who clears $500k/yr in tech and his dream is to retire to Saltspring and have a part-time job doing baggage handling for Harbour Air. Like him, I'd be happy to have some PT gig like that (Costco?) too.

Beyond that I see golf, travel, and cooking as my primary hobbies in retirement - my kid turns 7 in a few weeks so if I retire early enough I'm still going to get to be a dad for quite a while too.

I cannot wait to stop working entirely - I'm so much happier and healthier in semi-retirement and I'm fine with giving up the income I used to have. I miss some of the nicer things but the trade has been a super easy one to make.
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