I have been a longtime on and off lurker, and have gained a great deal of knowledge and inspiration from this community. Thank you!
I am 42 and in an mid/upper level exec role for the same megacorp over the last 10 years. I am blessed with a fantastic family, DW 38, DS 10, and DD 8. My DW has mostly been a SAHM, with some impressive flashes of entrepreneurship (E-bay, Amazon, Etsy) over the years. I fit the profile of many on the forum. Engineering education, middle class upbringing, drive older cars, not into status purchases, etc...
Thanks to the combination of LBYM and the stock market run up, we are in a position where I will FIRE myself this spring, and our family will undertake a huge lifestyle change and go on an adventure.
The adventure is living on our boat, and completing the Great Loop. The Great Loop is a 5,000+ mile loop up the East Coast, across upstate NY into Canada, through the Great Lakes, south through Chicago, assorted rivers, exit Mobile, back to Florida. From there cross over to the Bahamas and determine how long and how far to island hop around the Caribbean. So far we've taken the boat from Fort Myers FL to Charleston SC during long weekends. We are hoping to get the boat up to Virginia Beach/Chesapeake in the next six weeks so we can spend April getting ready and start for real in May after I FIRE.
The basic FIRE details are roughly $3.3M assets (mostly post-tax) from which we plan to draw under $100k per year. Another $300k set aside to purchase a home when are are done traveling. The boat is paid for and should add a good chunk of money into the house fund if we choose to get rid of it in a couple of years.
At the early stages of planning for this I suffered from OMY thoughts. Now I am having a hard time keeping sane for the seven more Mondays that I have to wait for my bonus/vesting to give notice.
We have a great deal to learn, and great may details to work out, and we aren't as well prepared as we should be. No specific questions at this point for the group, but will consider any advice you want to give on the following.
- Homeschooling
- Marine Diesel Maintenance
- Benefits of Mail Forwarding Services
- Storage Unit vs Sell/Donate Household Goods
- Best place to move in 2-4 years (public schools, culture, climate, COL)
- Whether mega-corp is reading this and I'll miss out on my last big payout
Thanks for reading. I'll check back frequently while I wait out my last few months in the office.
I am 42 and in an mid/upper level exec role for the same megacorp over the last 10 years. I am blessed with a fantastic family, DW 38, DS 10, and DD 8. My DW has mostly been a SAHM, with some impressive flashes of entrepreneurship (E-bay, Amazon, Etsy) over the years. I fit the profile of many on the forum. Engineering education, middle class upbringing, drive older cars, not into status purchases, etc...
Thanks to the combination of LBYM and the stock market run up, we are in a position where I will FIRE myself this spring, and our family will undertake a huge lifestyle change and go on an adventure.
The adventure is living on our boat, and completing the Great Loop. The Great Loop is a 5,000+ mile loop up the East Coast, across upstate NY into Canada, through the Great Lakes, south through Chicago, assorted rivers, exit Mobile, back to Florida. From there cross over to the Bahamas and determine how long and how far to island hop around the Caribbean. So far we've taken the boat from Fort Myers FL to Charleston SC during long weekends. We are hoping to get the boat up to Virginia Beach/Chesapeake in the next six weeks so we can spend April getting ready and start for real in May after I FIRE.
The basic FIRE details are roughly $3.3M assets (mostly post-tax) from which we plan to draw under $100k per year. Another $300k set aside to purchase a home when are are done traveling. The boat is paid for and should add a good chunk of money into the house fund if we choose to get rid of it in a couple of years.
At the early stages of planning for this I suffered from OMY thoughts. Now I am having a hard time keeping sane for the seven more Mondays that I have to wait for my bonus/vesting to give notice.
We have a great deal to learn, and great may details to work out, and we aren't as well prepared as we should be. No specific questions at this point for the group, but will consider any advice you want to give on the following.
- Homeschooling
- Marine Diesel Maintenance
- Benefits of Mail Forwarding Services
- Storage Unit vs Sell/Donate Household Goods
- Best place to move in 2-4 years (public schools, culture, climate, COL)
- Whether mega-corp is reading this and I'll miss out on my last big payout
Thanks for reading. I'll check back frequently while I wait out my last few months in the office.