This blog is going to be about more than just F.I.R.E.
Although I love the movement, (especially seeing how diverse it’s gotten over the years!) and I can’t wait to quit my job, my major milestones don’t all have to do with money. Money helped me achieve many of these things, but my journey is about my own happiness. Therefore, I’ll be including a lot more here than just my numbers.
Let’s travel back in time to see how I ended up here…
Here’s a little summary of the highlights so far.
- 2024, Fall: Loving the job!
- 2024, Summer: New job! 75k!
- 2024, Spring: applied to a couple jobs
- 2024, early part: tell everyone I’m not coming back! Where am I going? Who knows?
- 2023, later part: LOATHE my co-worker and the administration! I wanna gooooooo!
- 2022: Kept learning and investing heavily!
- 2021, early: Devoured many personal finance books! FIRE lit!
- 2020, later: New job! 64k! Woot! Woot! Started investing in a 403b again, but more than ever before!
- 2020: Pandemic! Sweet release from that damned job.
- 2020: early: Discover FIRE and the possibility of quitting my horrible job early. Aim for FIRE at 45 with $883k.
- 2019, 7 months later: New job! 54k, lower than my last job (59k), but it is what it is. Also, LOATHE my new job within weeks and wanna quit, but I stick it out. Paid off the debt! Woot! Woot!
- 2019: Quit my job recklessly…omg
- 2018: Put together a plan to save myself from the (24k!) debt! Roommates! Side gigs!
- 2017: Completed my goal to visit all 7 continents! Some things take priority for me. No regrets!
- 2017: Divorce, not the college dude, realizing if I’m going to have money, it’ll be ALL me. No one’s going to help me. In debt!
- 2015: Road trip around western U.S.!
- 2014: Career change, again! 50k!
- 2013: Career change! 45k!
- 2011: First full time job! Yay! 32k!
- 2010: Dating my college bf who planned to manage my money after we married, since he said I was “bad” at it. (Hell nah!) He’s important because due to him telling me he’d be taking my money and managing it, I started learning about money. I read “I Will Teach You to Be Rich” by Ramit Sethi and that helped me set up the basics. Specifically once I got my first full-time job.