Dead Man Walking
Now that it’s been confirmed that I’m moving to a team in Japan, my current manager has initiated a “transfer process” for me, so that our team doesn’t drop the ball on the projects I’m currently owning.
Secure a job in Japan: check.
So, less than 24h after I was complaining about not receiving any information from my potential offer for a position in Japan, I finally received the offer. Setting the role aside, which will basically be very similar
In Limbo
My family and I have been looking into going back to Japan, to start working on the next phases of our FIRE plan: move back to Japan, keep the job in order to get a mortgage at
Fighting gravity
A few months ago, I became what I like to call “KoFI” (kind of financially independent): our household reached the “target” amount of investments at which I don’t need my job anymore (for money): our expenses are
On my way to wealth, one bus ride at a time
Last week my son got invited to a friend’s birthday, way up to the north of Seattle. This would have taken half an hour by car, but we don’t own one, so the ride was 1h30 by
Help! I messed up, and now I’m living paycheck to paycheck!
Well, seems like I messed up my April numbers big time. I tend to invest as much money as I possibly can, by transferring money from my checking account to my brokerage account, in general on the
So tired of all this BS
So, our third kid was born in January, way ahead of schedule, and this changed a lot of stuff quickly in our life (as one could expect). The main thing that happened to me is that I
Financial Independence through the power of MLM (Multi Level Marketing)
“45 seconds to change your life”. That’s the subject of the email my little brother sent me a few weeks ago. The email included a motivational ebook, with a message from my brother: “Read the first four
Am I constantly running away from my fears, chasing a goal that keeps changing, or both?
(hu, 2 posts in 2 days, what’s up with me lately???) One of the big mottos in the Financial Independence world is Early retirees need something to retire “to”, not something to retire “from”. In other words,
“You and I both know that a million dollars is nothing”
I was talking recently with a good friend who is a successful engineer in Tokyo. He is, among my friends and family, the one who has been the most receptive to what I’ve been recently preaching about