Here is my story again in a nutshell because I've been gone for a while:
Quit my FT job nine months ago.
Took six months off, including two months traveling abroad.
Started a new (relatively low-paying) semi-retirement job a few months ago and still working in my old career PT
Love the new job most of the time, although I don't have much in common socially with my spendthrift coworkers (who are otherwise nice enough people, but not so nice that I want to drop tons of $$$ to go to some fancy schmancy gourmet dinner with them). Find the old career (which I didn't like) much more tolerable now that I'm doing it PT. I'm even managing to max out my retirement accounts for this year and expect to again next year.
I'm going to be hitting a new crossroads though, because while I have been minimally FI since March of this year (which amounts to $600k to cover my own basic expenses sans any luxury items), I have a charitable habit that cannot currently be supported by my stash. Including money that I give to help relatives, I currently spend about $1000/month on these donations. I'm thinking I would need to at least double my minimum stash (to $1.2 million) in order to be able to give to charity at the level I'd like along with funding some luxury items for myself. I anticipate being at around $800k once I'm done with my current contract, and I think I'd need to continue working PT for 3-5 more years after that (depending on how much more time I took off) to reach my inflated FI figure that would allow me to continue playing at being a philanthropist. This is assuming that I would continue contributing to my stash during this time and not living off it.
Curious if any of you have budgeted for significant charitable giving in your FIRE budgets, and if not, do you or would you work PT to make up that shortfall until you have enough saved up to fund your charitable giving from your stash? Obviously volunteering one's time is helpful, and I've been doing some of that too. But some causes need cold, hard cash: I can't volunteer my time to pay for my niece's college tuition, and it's not possible to go to Houston, the Florida Keys, Puerto Rico, and Mexico City all at the same time to help out with disaster relief.