Author: Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Growing up, I would never have imagined I’d own a business one day. No one in my family ever had a business, and the mere concept seemed foreign to me. I was a product of my environment, which was a...
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“Do you want cookies, or bananas and Nutella?”, she asked me. “Yes”, I replied. “Which one?”, she replied quizzically. “All of the above!” We were in a nondescript parking lot off the side of a major thoroughfare in Maryland. Two...
I was a pretty big David Letterman fan. I started watching him with my brother in 1982, his first year on the late night show. We had an old 13″ Panasonic black and white TV and we’d build forts using...
Artificial Intelligence and technology are rapidly changing jobs and the future of work. The job environment that will exist when you reach financial independence or retire will be very different, perhaps to your advantage. This post is the latest in...
It’s well known that some states tax their residents at a much higher rate than others. The reasons behind each states respective tax rate are of course very complex. One contributing factor that many do not consider is how much...
I stumbled upon a really interesting article in USA Today recently that got me thinking about employment in the modern age. The article detailed how many companies are snapping up talented folks even when they don’t have positions available for...
For a long time I had my emergency fund money sitting in a savings account at a credit union. I was getting better interest than the vast majority of savings accounts out there, but still losing money to inflation. As...
If you don’t know my story, I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth. I’ve been periodically writing about my experiences with this new lifestyle both at work and outside...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sources report every Financial Independence blogger attending the meet up at the corner table of the local “Ramen Emporium” ordered water. Waiter Josh Crawford was reportedly ecstatic to see a party of nine enter the restaurant, hoping...
Fact: Since 1984, more Americans have been killed in car crashes than have been killed in all wars in U.S. history. Since the first person was killed by car in the United States in 1899, over 3,730,000 people have...
Picture this, you’re 21 years old, and a junior in college. But you have a talent much more lucrative than the jobs your major might get you in the future, you’re a star athlete. Not just a collegiate star, but...
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