My Life Is An Iceberg
I’m financially independent. If I wanted to I could totally separate from my job and I’m 99.9% sure I’d never run out of money. Ever. And in case you’re wondering, I wouldn’t even have to withdrawal 4% anually to make...
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Just Wing Your Way To Financial Independence
We were lost. Well, not entirely lost. We were trying to get to the rental car return and departure gates at Luxembourg airport, and failing. I say we weren’t entirely lost because we could see the airport. “Dude”, I said...
What My Parents Never Told Me About Chores
If you work a white collar job in front of a computer like I have most of my career, you likely sit for most of the day. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard how sitting too much is bad...
The Slowly Changing Routine Of My Semi-Retired Schedule
I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth. It’s been my intention to keep posting updates on both my new work life as well as my non-work life. I’ve done...
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
If part of your financial independence strategy is pursuing geoarbitrage or if you anticipate moving after achieving FI, where you move matters. Walkable neighborhoods have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years. More and more people are realizing the...
Study: Having $2 Million Does Not Make You Wealthy
Charles Schwab recently released its annual modern wealth survey and the results are more interesting than ever. The study is an annual examination of how 1,000 Americans between the ages of 21 and 75 think about saving, spending, investing, and...
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...
Is Your Mindset Holding You Back?
On May 6th 1954 Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. The 4 minute mile, one of the biggest holy grails of athletic achievement that had been pursued since 1886, finally fell. For 68 years thousands of...
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...
First The Latte Factor, Now The Coffee Factor
Recently a short video from Suze Orman created a bit of a controversy on social media. Granted everything is a controversy on social media these days, but I found this one particularly interesting. Orman recorded a short video called “how...
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...
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