Am I ready to FIRE? I Have 800.000€
After more than 10 years of extremely stressful work, and an endless amount of stress that has sent me to the hospital four times, I’m seriously considering stopping work altogether.
I have less and less tolerance for people and for the irrationality I constantly have to deal with in human interactions. I’m autistic, and at this point I feel completely exhausted — both by work and by dealing with people in general.
Retiring early has actually been my goal since the very first day I started this journey. For the past 10 years, I have worked an average of around 70 hours per week.
In a few years, when I’m around 35, I expect to have a net worth of about €800,000, entirely built by myself. No inheritance whatsoever. In fact, my family has been one of the main sources of problems and stress in my life.
I’m Italian, although I currently live in another European country. When I eventually return to Italy, I plan to live in Southern Italy.
My situation would be:
- €800,000 in financial assets
- A fully paid-off home
- No expensive habits
- No car
- No wife, partner or children, and I don’t plan to have any
- Plenty of hobbies, all of them extremely inexpensive
- A very simple lifestyle
At the moment, I spend around €650 per month and I genuinely don’t feel that I’m missing anything. I own my home, I don’t drive, I work from home, and the city is well connected. When I move back to Italy, I would still live in the city centre, so I wouldn’t need a car there either.
To me, it seems that all the conditions for FIRE are there. If I reach €800,000, I feel that I should be able to retire.
Right now, I have around €676,000, despite having suffered two major frauds, including one committed by a former business partner, which together cost me approximately €125,000.
At this point, I’m simply exhausted. I don’t want luxury, status, expensive possessions or an extravagant lifestyle. I just want to stop living under constant pressure, stay away from unnecessary human conflict, enjoy my inexpensive hobbies, and live peacefully with my dogs.