Early Retirement Extreme

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Update 2 – Look Ma, No car!

Published in June 28th, 2012
Posted by in Personal
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Current net worth: 49 years worth of expenses. Annual withdrawal rate: 2.1% As promised in the last update something significant happened. We decided to sell our car (why pay for something that’s parked most of the time?) but more about that later. First some service announcements: Once again, we need to remember that in terms […]

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Update 1 – From the Windy City

Published in March 30th, 2012
Posted by in Personal, Timely
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**Update on our budget near the end of this post** If you read my last post a few months ago, you know that [and why] I decided to put a moratorium on blogging and instead decided to take up an interesting offer to go and do ‘rocket science’ as a quant in Chicago. Let me […]

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So long and thanks for all the fish

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Early Retirement, Personal, Timely, Work
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Remember this post where I announced my retirement from my career? Well, I’m about to commit some “light ERE treason” and “retire” from my retirement. In particular, I’m going back to work, in particular employment. I got a job offer I can’t, that is, won’t refuse. I kinda let the secret out at the Chicago […]

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