It’s Official, I’m Fully Retired!
It’s been a long road my friends. If you’re new to my blog you may not know I’ve been posting for over 7 and a half years now. And if you’ve been reading that whole time I applaud you for...
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U.S. Government Data – American Workers Have More Spending Power Than Five Years Ago
Recently I came across a late 2024 update from the U.S. Department of the Treasury about the median purchasing power of the American worker. It flies in the face of everything most of us have been hearing in the media...
How Absurdly Wealthy Did I Get Selling Graphic Designs In 2024?
It’s a new year and time to do my annual business review. I changed the title this year to poke some fun at myself and the online hustle community where everyone (everyone who is on social media at least) seems...
How Much Did I Make Selling Graphic Designs In 2023?
It’s a new year and time to do my annual business review. If you’re not familiar with my story I semi-retired to 20 hours a week at my main job in 2017 after reaching financial independence years before. Since then...
Lose The Job, Lose The Weight
If you’re like most, your job is a source of stress. Actually it’s probably the leading source of stress: According to the Center for Disease Control/National Institute on Occupational Safety & Health, the workplace is the number one cause of...
Yes I’ll Be Your Mentor If You Ask Nicely
I’ve written before about how I moved up pretty fast in my career in the federal government. Having come from a tough job in the private sector I found standing out in the government to be easy. I just worked...
Are You Being Authentic Or Are You Playing The Game?
Regular readers have heard me mention it before, but if you’re not one of them, this blog is slowly dying. My traffic numbers peaked in late 2020 and have been steadily declining since. Perhaps it’s warranted and the quality of...
I Quit My Job To Become A Lumberjack
First things first, I didn’t do what the title says 🙂 This is my first attempt at joining the bottom-dwelling world of clickbaity bloggers who use salacious and misleading titles to gain clicks, and probably my last. If you’re new...
How To Eat Well As A Starving Artist
The starving artist is a concept that has old roots. The idea of pursuing a life making art and suffering the financial consequences has been romanticized in movies and popular culture. As a consumer of art my favorite art form...
No Time To Ride Your Bike Because You’re Too Busy Working To Pay It Off
In 2020 when covid took off it launched an unprecedented bike boom. Millions of people who hadn’t ridden a bike since they were a kid looked to get one, or pulled their long forgotten old clunker out of the garage...
It’s Not Just A Great Resignation, It’s A Sea Change
I wrote about the Great Resignation last year, it’s been a popular topic especially in personal finance circles. That post focused on the amount of new businesses being created while record numbers of “quits” were simultaneously recorded. Resignations, or ‘quits’,...
Financial Independence Is A Hall Pass For Safe Reinvention
I’ve been part time at my main W2 job for well over 4.5 years now. Not 32 hours a week, but a scant 20 hours a week. A drastic change like that after almost 25 years of full time workaholism...
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