@oneday thanks for keeping track of the list.
I'm no longer shooting for 2025 specifically.
Since I made the second comment in this thread almost 5 years ago, so many things have happened:
1.) Quit my job with the plan to take a single year off and return to the workforce doing something new.
2.) Found a job. Quit that job with no plans of when to work again.
3.) Found a completely new job with the federal government in Hawaii.
4.) Found yet another completely new job with the federal government in Arizona
5.) Will be moving back to California for the 3rd government job within 2.5 calendar years, doing similar work as Fed Job #2.
Since I am almost two years into the pension train now, I have some options:
1.) Stick around until 2042 when I can retire with a reduced pension and retiree health insurance for life.
2.) Stick around until 2042 and delay the unreduced pension and retiree health insurance to 2045.
3.) After hitting 25x projected retirement expenses some time well before 2042, up and quit, foregoing the retiree health insurance and pension.
4.) Work until 2029, delaying the reduced pension to 2042 or unreduced pension to 2047
5.) After hitting 25x expenses, switch to a seasonal and/or part time job with the government to ride out the time until 2042.
6.) if I get bored with current government job, try some other government job.
7.) Hope to get targeted for an "early out" retirement, where I get retiree health insurance, unreduced pension, and a pension supplement until 2047. I would first be eligible in January of 2039. I'm told it's not something you strategically can plan for unfortunately.
The government gives so much time off, and I can work a 4/10 schedule, that I'd be surprised if I want to leave in 5 years, but anything is possible.