Thanks for setting this up! I was planning to create a lemmy FIRE community if one didn’t exist.
As I’ve succumbed to lifestyle creep over the past decade, I’ve been about 10 from being FI for roughly the last 10 year. I go back and forth between wanting to RE and simply seeking FI. I recently started a new role that has me shifting toward RE, but am not sure I ever want to completely stop working. A sabbatical might be in the cards in a year or two though.
Anyway, glad to have discovered this community!
I just got back from vacation and am facing a complete lack of motivation for work this week and have been dreaming of RE. Interestingly, I’m somehow comforted by this feeling. It was how I felt most of my career, but recently started being complacent with my work situation. Not because it is great, but because I think part of me had finally succumbed to the fact that I have to and that made me stop dreaming. Now I’m dreaming again.