Tagged: career

April 12, 2019

Is It Best To Take The Safe Path?

One of my favorite professional cyclists retired at the end of 2016. Had this blog existed then I would have written about it at the time since her story relates to career and finances. Alas, I’m doing it now. Evelyn,...

life experience

September 25, 2018

How Being Underpaid Took My Career To The Next Level

Way back last century, I was still just a few years into my government career after leaving the private sector. It was a massive cultural change to go to a government job from a small dot com company, and I...

work

June 16, 2018

The Gig Economy Isn’t Really Growing

To me, it can be harder than ever today to separate perception and reality. There’s just too much information out there, so it’s often a forest/trees issue. So yesterday I saw this from Bloomberg – despite what you think or what...

work

April 3, 2018

What I Signed Up For

I’ve been semi-retired to part time at my W2 job since October of 2017. I wrote about my initial experiences and feelings early on back in November, but it’s my intention to keep updating my experience as the journey progresses....

work

November 8, 2017

Dead Man Walkin!

About six weeks ago I transitioned to part time at my job. Not 32 hours a week, not 24, but I went down to 20. I’ve been FI for quite a while now, but I frankly don’t have the cajones...