Forced to FIRE in late 40s
I am in my late 40s and worked for almost a quarter century and in individual contributer role. I was asked to look for a new job at work place recently. While I always knew the reality hit harder. Almost no calls from portals, sympathetic friends but not really able to find a suitable requirement in their workplaces and so on. Ultimately got one call which never proceeded further as they don't really need a vetaran but talked to only because they are not getting people. The market is still good for mid level juniors, 10-15 years experienced people are getting calls but I think that is the sweet spot. More and more it looks like this is the final (though one needs only one call and successful offer).
I don't know if retirement in late 40s is even considered FIRE but any retirement before traditional retirement date is early, so it's FIRE in the literal sense.
Finances wise I am comfortable though. A paid up flat where I live. I don't have separate buckets of investments but have around 80x pretax networth where x is annual expenses including school fees. Ofcourse this 80x has to take care of kids educations, health emergency beyond insurance too, so actual FIRE corpus would be smaller.
I have salary for a few more months (either working or notice buyout but will get salary). I have given my self around 8 months for job search before I start thinking about what I want to do.
Are there any forced FIREs in the forum? What is your experience of settingup post retirement life? I am not the type who can watch some thing or read books all day or the type who plays community sports like badminton or does social work. I do read a lot but as a hobby that is fine but can't do that every day, all day for next 25-30 years.