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Selected life timeline 2019—2020

He protected the weekends—and discovered he wanted to protect the weekdays too.

After years of weekly flights to work, home projects and a motorcycle made departure feel easy. New consulting invitations soon tested how much of that freedom he wanted to give back.

Finances
Net worth at retirement2019-10 · Household
$3,900,000

Household net worth included an estimated $750,000 in illiquid private-company equity; the investment portfolio was $2.8 million.

Source
Posts2
2019
Post 01Recalled in 2020

Protecting weekends

“My newfound freedom was and is wonderful!”

ESI Retiree 23Read original post (opens in a new tab)

Life at the time

  • House projects and motorcycling filled the first three months.
  • He spent weekdays at home after years of commuting across states.

How it felt

  • The transition felt unusually smooth. “seamless”
  • He barely thought about his old job. “My newfound freedom”
FreedomBoundariesRoutine
ESI Retiree 23 (opens in a new tab)
Notes

Earlier period recalled in the account published 2020-06-29; this is not a separately published contemporary update.

Retirement life / personal reflection; exact short excerpt: seamless

Retirement life / personal reflection; exact short excerpt: My newfound freedom

Editorial summaries with short, attributed quotations. The original contains the full story.

2020Year 0.5
Post 02

Protecting ordinary weekdays too

“After only 3 months of freedom I was hooked on it.”

ESI Retiree 23Read original post (opens in a new tab)

Life at the time

  • He kept chores on weekdays so weekends remained special.
  • Consulting, coaching and teaching plans met the disruption of COVID-19.

How it felt

  • Even appealing assignments competed with his new freedom. “I was hooked on it”
  • He missed colleagues occasionally but felt no regret about leaving. “never had any second thoughts”
FreedomBoundariesRoutine
ESI Retiree 23 (opens in a new tab)
Notes

Dated first-person reflection; the observation date follows the interview month where stated, which can precede publication.

Retirement life / personal reflection; exact short excerpt: I was hooked on it

Retirement life / personal reflection; exact short excerpt: never had any second thoughts

Retirement overview and reported duration.

Editorial summaries with short, attributed quotations. The original contains the full story.

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Research

Last checked Sep 2026. The accounts are self-reported. This timeline follows selected accounts, including recollections where labeled; it is not a complete archive.

  • These are selected first-person accounts, not a complete life history. Later circumstances may differ.
  • Financial figures and household circumstances are self-reported and are not independently verified.
  • The first moment is a retrospective account of an earlier period, except where explicitly identified as a reproduced journal entry.
  • An exact age at final departure was not established; an age reported later is not substituted.

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