Formally joining up in the 2018 cohort, coming over from 2017. This is a big group! Lots of the names are familiar from having moved up into the 2017 group part way through the year.
I'm kind of caught between cohorts, really. My original plan was to FIRE in 2022 after hitting a target number, but when mega-corp purchased my medium corp and announced my site will close at the end of 2017, DW and I cut expenses fairly dramatically (and increased savings) to see what we can do without feeling deprived to make the transition sooner. Our changes were significant enough to support down-shifting to semi-FIRE so I don't have to find another cube job I'm no longer passionate about. My layoff date has since been pushed out to March 2018, which gets me a little closer to my actual FIRE stash target, but I remain on the hook for working 3 more months. I will likely end up coming in to the physical office very rarely Jan to Mar, though, so in some ways it still feel like 2017 is my last year. The actual alignment of when I will stop getting income from my employer is solidly in 2018.
The current revision of our plan is to kick-off the transition to Semi-FIRE with a 6 week family road trip to 10 US National Parks. Then come back to a one-year break, then decide whether to continue to a subsequent one year break or pick up some part time work that I will enjoy. We will be keeping a bit more of our stash in cash during this time and letting the existing stash grow.