u/sparkleglitter111

My husband and I are in our late twenties and are about to reach financial independence within the next year. He is also about to become a commercial pilot and has kept telling me I won’t have to work anymore as soon as we reach financial independence and he has his first pilot job.

(Nearly) Reaching financial independence has been a lot of work (working late nights & weekends next to full time job/schooling) + lots of saving and living frugally + lots of luck involved. We are basically achieving this through real estate (planning, building, renovating mostly by ourselves).

I have been working in consulting for over two years and ever since we started our real estate project I have steadily been losing interest in my job, especially client projects. I have always loved learning and have been a top student and enjoyed working, but this corporate environment is so incredibly boring. I am sitting in meetings, people use all kinds of management language and I just can’t get myself to care or even listen sometimes. I feel like none of it matters and just creates more work, which means more people will spend more time in front of the screen all day. I like the internal stuff in my company more compared to client projects. Client projects just always means new people, new projects, which then means complex, boring input I have to read and what I learn brings me personally zero value. I also haven’t climbed the career ladder really & I honestly don’t care because I don’t see the benefit of earning maybe 5% more for a lot more responsibility, being expected to work when sick and never being completely off. I have tried to suppress these feelings, but it just grows stronger and stronger and I don’t enjoy my Mondays to Fridays anymore. It’s a really good job relatively to other jobs - 90% remote, friendly co-workers, pay and work life balance is ok for consulting. I know I have a really good job, but at the same time, i feel extremely unmotivated and I am scared that the outlook of FIRE actually makes me lazy and will make me lose my job. I have always thought of myself about enjoying having a career but it has been the opposite lately and made me rethink everything.
I wonder if I could get interested in my job again or if I should just risk it all once we reach FIRE and do exactly what I want (starting a business and also leaning more into music) even if it doesn’t pay?

My background (bachelor and master’s) is in business, communication & human behaviour.

I appreciate some advice! Thanks!
TL;DR: Bored by my job in consulting in my late twenties. Feel like none of it matters, which makes me unmotivated and I could risk losing my job. Worried that financial independence has caused this.

My husband and I are in our late twenties and are about to reach financial independence within the next year. He is also about to become a commercial pilot and has kept telling me I won’t have to work anymore as soon as we reach financial independence and he has his first pilot job.

(Nearly) Reaching financial independence has been a lot of work (working late nights & weekends next to full time job/schooling) + lots of saving and living frugally + lots of luck involved. We are basically achieving this through real estate (planning, building, renovating mostly by ourselves).

I have been working in consulting for over two years and ever since we started our real estate project I have steadily been losing interest in my job, especially client projects. I have always loved learning and have been a top student and enjoyed working, but this corporate environment is so incredibly boring. I am sitting in meetings, people use all kinds of management language and I just can’t get myself to care or even listen sometimes. I feel like none of it matters and just creates more work, which means more people will spend more time in front of the screen all day. I like the internal stuff in my company more compared to client projects. Client projects just always means new people, new projects, which then means complex, boring input I have to read and what I learn brings me personally zero value. I also haven’t climbed the career ladder really & I honestly don’t care because I don’t see the benefit of earning maybe 5% more for a lot more responsibility, being expected to work when sick and never being completely off. I have tried to suppress these feelings, but it just grows stronger and stronger and I don’t enjoy my Mondays to Fridays anymore. It’s a really good job relatively to other jobs - 90% remote, friendly co-workers, pay and work life balance is ok for consulting. I know I have a really good job, but at the same time, i feel extremely unmotivated and I am scared that the outlook of FIRE actually makes me lazy and will make me lose my job. I have always thought of myself about enjoying having a career but it has been the opposite lately and made me rethink everything.
I wonder if I could get interested in my job again or if I should just risk it all once we reach FIRE and do exactly what I want (starting a business and also leaning more into music) even if it doesn’t pay?

My background (bachelor and master’s) is in business, communication & human behaviour.

I appreciate some advice! Thanks!
TL;DR: Bored by my job in consulting in my late twenties. Feel like none of it matters, which makes me unmotivated and I could risk losing my job. Worried that financial independence has caused this.

My husband and I are in our late twenties and are about to reach financial independence within the next year. He is also about to become a commercial pilot and has kept telling me I won’t have to work anymore as soon as we reach financial independence and he has his first pilot job.

(Nearly) Reaching financial independence has been a lot of work (working late nights & weekends next to full time job/schooling) + lots of saving and living frugally + lots of luck involved. We are basically achieving this through real estate (planning, building, renovating mostly by ourselves).

I have been working in consulting for over two years and ever since we started our real estate project I have steadily been losing interest in my job, especially client projects. I have always loved learning and have been a top student and enjoyed working, but this corporate environment is so incredibly boring. I am sitting in meetings, people use all kinds of management language and I just can’t get myself to care or even listen sometimes. I feel like none of it matters and just creates more work, which means more people will spend more time in front of the screen all day. I like the internal stuff in my company more compared to client projects. Client projects just always means new people, new projects, which then means complex, boring input I have to read and what I learn brings me personally zero value. I also haven’t climbed the career ladder really & I honestly don’t care because I don’t see the benefit of earning maybe 5% more for a lot more responsibility, being expected to work when sick and never being completely off. I have tried to suppress these feelings, but it just grows stronger and stronger and I don’t enjoy my Mondays to Fridays anymore. It’s a really good job relatively to other jobs - 90% remote, friendly co-workers, pay and work life balance is ok for consulting. I know I have a really good job, but at the same time, i feel extremely unmotivated and I am scared that the outlook of FIRE actually makes me lazy and will make me lose my job. I have always thought of myself about enjoying having a career but it has been the opposite lately and made me rethink everything.
I wonder if I could get interested in my job again or if I should just risk it all once we reach FIRE and do exactly what I want (starting a business and/orleaning in more into music) even if it doesn’t pay?

My background (bachelor and master’s) is in business, communication & human behaviour.

I appreciate some advice! Thanks!
TL;DR: Bored by my job in consulting in my late twenties. Feel like none of it matters, which makes me unmotivated and I could risk losing my job. Worried that financial independence has caused this.

My husband will finish flight school in about half a year and his birthday is coming up soon.

I already have a few tiny gifts for him, but I wanted to ask in this sub for any gift ideas related to aviation/being a pilot.
E.g., a gadget that is very practical in the daily life of a pilot or really anything else that pilots or soon-to-be-pilots would be happy about?
Thanks! :)

My husband will finish flight school in about half a year and his birthday is coming up soon.

I already have a few tiny gifts for him, but I wanted to ask in this sub for any gift ideas related to aviation/being a pilot.
E.g., a gadget that is very practical in the daily life of a pilot or really anything else that pilots or soon-to-be-pilots would be happy about?
Thanks! :)

My husband and I are close to receiving 4-5k (depending on how much we can write off tax) in rental income per month (long term, not rental).
We are in our late twenties.
I wanted to hear some opinion here: Would 4-5k be enough to retire in Germany or Austria? (Considering there is enough financial back up for maintenance and repair)
We spend around 2k a month on living expense currently.

We also want to start a family in about 2 years.
Neither of us wants to stop working, but the thought of not HAVING to work would be such a game changer, especially since my job will be probably be taken over by AI or at least the industry will get much more competitive due to AI.
My husband has found a career he absolutely loves, where he earns very well and which is not likely to be taken over by AI.
Me ? Not so much. I earn good money, but I am not fulfilled and the more our passive income grows, the more I feel a longing to just risk it all and pivot into a completely different field.

What is your advice?
Is it realistic to grow the passive income further and FAT FIRE? (10k a month would be our next goal)
(We have been extremely lucky with our real estate investment and already have an eye on another one)

Should I stay in my career as long as possible (before AI eats my industry), use it to grow our passive income and then risk it all? Or should I take the risk now since 4-5k is already technically enough?