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Selected life timeline 2020—2025

He left the job. His own projects took over the calendar.

u/FireBoundSoon traded a tech career for outdoor time, an app and increasingly ambitious building projects. Five years later, the cabin was consuming the freedom it was supposed to serve. The money remained ample; finding friends and remembering that a self-imposed deadline could be dropped proved more stubborn challenges.

Finances
Net worth at retirement2020 · Personal
$2,500,000

Approximate departure net worth described retrospectively as $2.5m; chart rounding is closer to $2.6m.

Source
Posts2
2022Year 2
Post 01

Plenty to do, fewer people to do it with

“I still love the freedom to climb, hike, snowshoe, bike, or whatever activity I want on my own schedule and when the conditions are ideal.”

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Life at the time

  • Spent substantial time on home projects and an income-producing app.
  • Climbed, hiked, cycled and exercised outdoors.

How it felt

  • Found that making friends after a move required deliberately leaving the house. “I need to push myself to go out”
  • Continued to value the freedom to pursue outdoor activities. “I still love the freedom to climb, hike, snowshoe, bike”
OutdoorsCreativityFriends
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Notes

Publication date at available precision. Retirement milestones follow the author’s own count; a missing milestone is not inferred.

Life, DIY projects, app income and social reflections.

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

2025Year 5
Post 02

A cabin becomes another demanding job

“As stated in prior check-ins, making newer friends continues to be a struggle.”

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Life at the time

  • Devoted much of the calendar to building a cabin.
  • Planned a six-week break; it had not yet been reported as completed.

How it felt

  • Recognized a familiar tendency to push a voluntary project too hard. “There is no reason I need to go so hard.”
  • Still found it difficult to build new friendships. “making newer friends continues to be a struggle.”
CreativitySlowing downFriends
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Notes

Publication date at available precision. Retirement milestones follow the author’s own count; a missing milestone is not inferred.

Cabin project, planned break and social update.

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

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

  • The author continues earning app income. The starting figure is rounded and differs slightly between narrative and chart. Five-year net withdrawals are not equivalent to total spending.
  • This is a selection of reviewed updates, not a complete account history. No later life outcome is inferred from the absence of another indexed post.

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