The Trade-Offs Of Going Part Time
If you’re a new reader and not familiar with my backstory, in a nutshell I became financially independent in my mid-40’s and went down to 20 hours a week at my W2 job. I now spend the newly freed 20...
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You Don’t Need To Be A Tech Bro To Achieve Financial Independence: Celebrate The Liberal Arts
STEM, STEM, STEM, that’s all you’ve been hearing, right? These days it seems kids are being discouraged from seeking liberal arts degrees by people who think they’ll be unemployable without a STEM degree. I’m here to tell you, that’s nonsense....
Celebrate Labor
Yesterday was Labor Day. Labor. Work. Those of us who are financially independent likely achieved it through hard work. The reality is that most wealthier people didn’t inherit their money, they earned it and saved it. And we’re not striving...
I’m Slowly Losing My W2 Muscles
When I was in grade school I had a talent for drawing. Or so that’s how my Mother dutifully described it at least. I didn’t really agree, and was always upset at what I put on paper. But there was...
The Horrors Of A Long Commute
In the early 1990’s I was fresh out of college and lucky to score a pretty low paying job at a small dotcom start up. With unemployment at 7.5% I took what I got and didn’t have the luxury of...
Gig Or Job? The Future Of Gig Economy Jobs
NPR did an article recently about the gig economy that really got me thinking. Firstly, the article cited the research I posted about last year that claims to gig economy is actually getting smaller. This is of course contrary to...
Things I Don’t Miss About Working Full Time
If you’re a new reader and not familiar with my backstory, in a nutshell I became financially independent in my mid-40’s and went down to 20 hours a week at my W2 job. I now spend the newly freed half...
Where You Work Matters, Choose Carefully
Jobs and opportunity are often a major factor that prompt people to move to another city or part of the country. After all, unless you have a big inheritance or have won the lottery, work is an essential prerequisite to...
I’m Not A Pothead But I Might Be A Burnout
The big work related news of the week is the World Health Organization has now officially listed burnout as an “occupational syndrome”. In the eleventh edition of the agency’s manual called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the WHO claims...
Are You Wealthy, Successful, And Miserable?
Every once in a while I read an article that touches on so many points relevant to financial independence that it must be shared. Charles Duhigg’s recent article in New York Times magazine titled “Wealthy, Successful, and Miserable” is one...
How I Excelled At My Job And Moved Up Faster Than Others
I sometimes see complaints in the personal finance community that bloggers focus too much on frugality and saving money and not enough on making more money. There’s an endless number of posts about side hustling out there, but admittedly there...
How To Avoid Filing Quarterly Estimated Taxes On Your Side Hustle
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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