Hey anyone that reads this. I'm an occasional lurker who checks in on the forum discussions, where the discussions are spiral dynamics / Wheaton levels and what people are making. I started saving at a young age (middle school) and investing in high school, learning how to fail at day trading in the dot com bubble. YMOYL, RDPD, Investing for Dummies, Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis helped guide me early on. Later Jacob's blog / book and MMM kept me engaged, among others. A couple of early financial milestones for me were getting to nw 60k in 2004 and nw 125k + paying off a mortgage on a small property in 2008. I've kept up a high savings rate (40% - 90%) over the years and I'm currently at a SWR of 2.3%. DINKs; our team was outsourced recently, and I've casually been looking. A few years ago, a similar situation happened, and the nw went up while I was not working. I believe a rental property income, interest and dividends mostly cover expenses. This last job actually checked off the box of one of the few remaining goals my younger self had.
Various hobby projects / activities over the years which I've not discarded as unfit or lost interest have included running, swimming, cycling, 3d printing, woodworking, home improvements, gardening, electronics, permaculture, solar + battery tech, investing, studying business, programming, spoken languages, traveling a few times a year, etc.
One thing I am working on more of is engaging IRL socially and finding more interesting places / activities to engage in. This is not new to me, so it's a matter of degrees. A small business, like another rental property, and further enhancing our ecological resiliency are other goals.