Early Retirement Extreme

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Dear Graduate, do you want to retire in five years?

Published in November 21st, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy
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Dear Graduate, You have now obtained a degree. While this doesn’t show you to have any particularly useful skills, save for a few notable professions, it will make you employable in the corporate world. You now have a choice to make: You can join the majority, have a career, and work for the next 30 […]

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Being frugal beyond your means

Published in November 19th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy
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Recently, I came across the expression in the title and I really like this way of putting it. In “these trying economic times”, incidentally an expression which I hate, sacrifice has come to mean giving something up, rather than exchanging something to gain a better position, like in chess. That said, I sympathize with the […]

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Breaking up with your career …

Published in November 19th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Work
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… is hard to do. Brauhster made a comment that retiring from one’s career is akin to divorce. I think that this is a good point. There are many parallels. The mental change one undergoes or must undergo to leave one’s career is similar to breaking up a long-term relationship. This is significantly different from […]

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