🔥 Burnt-Out Employee 🔥

Buy Back Time. Know Your Numbers.

I am what I would consider a typical Hey there 👋, I'm CM. I am a full-time software engineer and also doing a part-time Master's at NUS, so I am very familiar with juggling time across work, school, family, friends, and rest., and I know how easily life here turns into one long blur of 9-6 work, errands, deadlines, and mental load. Weekends become recovery mode, Sunday shows up too fast, and the people you love get whatever energy is left.

I care about efficiency because reclaimed time is the point. Sometimes that means AI. Sometimes it means delegation, a better system, hired help, or paying for the boring tool that quietly gets your evenings back.

Not everything needs automation. Sometimes the better answer is delegation, simplification, or paying for help earlier.

Why I Started This

I want to help people buy back time on purpose.

Some problems want AI. Some want a cleaner process, delegated help, a household tool, or a small spend that removes repeat friction. What matters is finding the cheapest sensible lever that gives you time and energy back.

That is why these FIRE calculators mix workflow drag with money clarity. One side helps you understand hidden load, habits, and repeat tasks. The other helps you break down spending, saving, and retirement goals so you know what needs to change now if you want a certain future later.

FIRE Calculator Lab

Useful, Weirdly Specific, Slightly Chaotic

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Featured Calculator

Includes a shareable result card you can post to Instagram or Facebook Stories.

Can I Retire or Must I Buy Toto?

A playful reality check on how much money buys time, what your target retirement age and spending require, and how little blind hope should drive the plan.

  • Compares disciplined and hopeful paths side-by-side so you can see the time gap clearly.
  • Uses CPF-aware assumptions with adjustable inflation, salary, and expense growth inputs.
  • Turns financial stress into a sharper conversation about time freedom, savings targets, and tradeoffs instead of vague vibes.

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Includes a shareable result card you can post to Instagram or Facebook Stories.

F-You-Money

Estimate how much liquid cash you need to buy yourself time before leaving a draining job or funding a new chapter.

  • Separates personal spending and business burn with independent inflation assumptions.
  • Includes setup cost and safety buffer so the runway target is not fantasy math.
  • Shows your cash gap, surplus, and affordable runway under zero-income mode.

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Buy Back Bedtime Stories

A presence-time simulator that converts repetitive drag into missed dinners, bedtime stories, and the weekends you never fully got back.

  • Turns lost hours into family moments so the cost feels human, not abstract.
  • Models reclaim scenarios if you remove 20%, 40%, or 60% of repetitive load.
  • Prioritizes what to automate, template, delegate, or delete first.

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Should I Automate This?

A fast triage calculator for repetitive work, context-switch pain, and whether the answer is AI, delegation, a template, or a proper workflow.

  • Turns recurring task pain into a simple automation score and recommendation tier.
  • Estimates monthly and yearly time you could reclaim from repetitive busywork.
  • Helps you avoid over-building small annoyances while surfacing work that should be automated, delegated, or handled differently.

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Where Did My Weekend Go?

A weekend simulator for showing how recovery, chores, spillover work, and exhaustion quietly tax your time off.

  • Calculates how many weekend hours are actually usable instead of spoken for.
  • Estimates when Sunday dread tends to arrive based on the shape of your weekend.
  • Shows what changes buy the weekend back fastest through automation, delegation, batching, or protection.

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Invisible Load Heatmap

A hidden-friction mapper for the quiet tasks across work, household systems, and life admin that keep draining attention and may be better automated, delegated, or redesigned.

  • Surfaces where the invisible load is clustering across work, household, and life admin.
  • Ranks recurring tasks by load score, reclaim potential, and the right action bucket.
  • Bridges personal systems and operational systems instead of pretending they are separate lives.

How I Think About Buying Back Time

Practical, Not Ideological

01

Use the right lever

Sometimes the answer is AI. Sometimes it is a checklist, a cleaner handoff, a housekeeper, a robot vacuum, or simply paying for help instead of pretending you have endless capacity.

02

Know what your time costs

Time-buying decisions get clearer when you understand your spending, savings rate, and what a certain retirement age or lifestyle actually requires.

03

Build for a lighter life

The real win is fewer dropped balls, less background stress, and more energy left for family, rest, and the parts of life that should not keep getting leftovers.

Free consultation report

If life or business feels heavier than it should, get a free first read.

Good candidates are not just AI problems. Sometimes the right move is a better workflow, clearer handoffs, paid help, a household tool, or more honest retirement and spending math. Fill in the form and I will send you a short report on where I think time or money may be leaking, plus which lever might buy breathing room back.

You keep repeating the same task and do not know whether to automate it or offload it.
You suspect help would fix the load, but you do not know if that means AI, hired help, a tool, or a better system.
You want a clearer plan for spending, saving, or retiring at a certain age instead of relying on vibes.