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A retirement career as a caretaker (in exotic locations)

Published in January 23rd, 2021
Posted by in Early Retirement, housing, Work
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I stumbled over this over at cooltools. It sounds like an interesting concept: Be a caretaker and live for free, monetarily speaking, in exotic locations, moving to a new place occasionally. It would fit in very well for (early) retires, particularly those, who could default to an RV or an understanding family, or workers who […]

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The danger of outgrowing your lifestyle

Published in January 22nd, 2021
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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I have mostly seen this within the context of backpacking, which in this modern age is known as “incredibly awesome minimalist traveling” or something, and institutionalized education. It is a surmountable problem which comes from the fact that most people treat these lifestyles, the traveling lifestyle and the student lifestyle as phases. Anyone who repeats […]

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Being frugal beyond your means

Published in January 20th, 2021
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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