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Selected life timeline 2011—2019

Financial freedom kept opening doors to new kinds of work

Jacob Lund Fisker used financial independence to explore skills and occupations, including a full-time finance role after leaving physics. Later, practical projects still absorbed him, but he was candid that competence did not make home maintenance or bought experiences enjoyable.

Finances
Net worth at retirement2019-10-02 · Household
Not established

Departure balance not disclosed in the reviewed narrative sources. Date is the source publication; departure date remains unknown.

Source
Reported spending2019-10-02 · Household
$14,000 / year

Approximate household annual spending, including both spouses; self-reported.

Source
Posts2
2011
Post 01Recalled in 2019

Moving for an interesting job

“strange living in a place”

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Life at the time

  • Sold the RV and moved from California to Chicago in seventeen days.
  • Accepted a finance role offered through a blog reader.

How it felt

  • Was eager to try work he had long wanted to explore. “easiest move ever”
  • Initially found a stationary, more spacious home strange after RV life. “strange living in a place”
CuriosityWorkSimplicity
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Notes

Explicit retrospective period in later article

Moving to Chicago

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

2019
Post 02

Skills grew; preferences became clearer

“not really something that I enjoy”

Jacob Lund FiskerRead original post (opens in a new tab)

Life at the time

  • Built furniture, repaired watches and began making a plywood clock.
  • Lived in a small fixer-upper with a vegetable garden.

How it felt

  • Enjoyed practical learning but disliked the maintenance attached to homeownership. “not really something that I enjoy”
  • Found purchased experiences harder to enjoy after learning to make things himself. “harder to appreciate bought experiences”
CuriosityWorkSimplicity
Jacob Lund Fisker (opens in a new tab)
Notes

Dated author publication describing current life

Home and Homesteading; Who Watches the Watchmen?; Downsides of the Renaissance Ideal

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.

  • Only the cited dated experiences are verified; later developments are not inferred.
  • Selected public self-reports, not a complete archive or independent verification of finances.

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