As I make progress towards my goal of retiring before I turn 40, the techniques and efforts required to do so are becoming clearer to me. My goal to retire early started about a year ago when I realized that I wasn’t passionate about my job anymore. It reached a point where I was afraid … Read more
I’ve written before about how friends and family don’t always support or understand the goals behind being frugal and retiring early. My parents were in town recently for holidays, and my father asked me if I was “ok” from a financial standpoint. We recently had a second child and he’s worried about my financial stability. – “you’re … Read more
My daily job has been frustrating recently, on various levels. As a result I have focused a growing portion of my time and energy on my side business, but I need to be careful not to get in trouble at my company for not providing enough results. I’m at a level of wealth where I … Read more
One question I asked myself often before opening this blog and looking deeper into the ways to retire early, was “how much money do I need to retire”. The answer of course depends on everyone’s goals and expenses, I also have my own, pretty precise target now. The rule of thumbs is known as the … Read more
Since I’ve started my quest to retire early and become financially independent, I’ve had to look closer into our budget, something that I hadn’t done much so far in my life (my motivation used to be “make enough money that I don’t have to care about it”, and that kind of worked up to a … Read more
I thought it would be easy to talk about my current assets here. It turns out it’s not: I realized while typing this article that I am not willing to disclose how much money I have. I can however state that I feel reasonably close to retirement, hoping to generate enough passive income of my … Read more
I’ve been thinking of retiring early for quite some time now. I have accumulated a reasonable “nest” (invested in the stock market) that is providing me with a significant amount of investment income. Way not enough for a living, but enough that I started thinking: “Hey if I keep doing that, I could retire in … Read more
I’m a noob when it comes to finance, and this is one of the reasons I set up this blog: to share my journey, my mistakes, and hopefully, ultimately, my success at becoming financially independent and retire before 40. Somehow I had been lured into believing that my brokerage account would net me an average … Read more
The title of this blog post, and the name of this website, are patronizing. There are thousands of websites out there promising people they will get “rich quick” and retire super early by following this or that piece of advice, so why yet another one? This site is not (for now) a way to teach … Read more