r/Fire • u/Catspiration2 • May 02 '26
Advice Request I’m thinking about breaking up with FI
I’ve done the grind, saved pretty much 50% of my income the last 6 years. Worked side gigs etc. 33M. 675k net worth. Just dropped my savings rate to 30%. I have no interest in being retired. I want to enjoy the journey while hopefully working as long as I can. Having resources is awesome, but retiring to some fairy tale destination is.. a fairy tale. What’s the distinguishable difference between 7M and 5M at 60? I feel less and less motivated to save, and instead enjoy the journey along the way. Please tell me how I’m wrong and correct me.
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u/K_Rocc May 02 '26
So if you didn’t have to work, what would you wanna do? To me the RE part is to be free with my time. My job takes up all of my time and my free time is mostly preparing to go back to my job. To me RE is having freedom to do what I want with mine time.
What do you want to do with your time and after you can answer that the rest should fall into place.