Thanks for asking! Why yes, I am having a lovely time. I’m Nocturnal Now I’ve moved my sleep schedule so that I sleep only during daylight now. This is useful since the weather is much nicer at night, I can usually open the windows at least for a while. I’m also saving a good deal …
I saw an article about the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement on the first page of my financial news today. While it wasn’t anything new, I was surprised at how it stuck to the facts and avoided the typical: These people somehow don’t spend all of their money on things, isn’t that weird? It …
I sometimes feel dishonest when telling people I am retired. Not because I didn’t save up enough money to never have to work again – I most certainly did. But because the reasons for my extremely early retirement are not publicly known. I suffer from a great deal of anxiety and especially social anxiety. Working …
The best part of being very early retired is the ability to get up and go whenever you want. No need to schedule vacation time months in advance and then return immediately back to the office after your vacation is over. One of the biggest hurdles to traveling is the expensive hotels you need to …
The secret to retiring extremely early is not to amass X amount of dollars so you can gradually withdraw it at Y percent like many other guides suggest. What you need to do is have layers of contingency plans like an onion securing your core desire of never having a job again. I say this …
When entering early retirement there were a few things I wasn’t expecting myself to keep doing after escaping the restrictions imposed by having over 50% of your waking life dictated. One of those was waking up early. I am about as far from a morning person as possible. I love the feeling of staying up …