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Reader Case: Entrepeneurs Closer to Early Retirement Than They Thought
- Reader Case: Struggling to Get to FI with a Special Needs Child - June 5, 2023
- Why HomeExchange Beats Airbnb - May 22, 2023
- Let’s Go Exploring! Da Nang, Vietnam: The Next Digital Nomad Paradise? - May 8, 2023
Hey peeps, before we get started with today’s reader case, I want to invite you to a Facebook live event where we talk about Passiv, one of our favourite investing tools. We’ll chat about our FIRE lifestyle, our approach to investing, and how you can use Passiv to help you reach Financial Independence. As you know, we never recommend any products we don’t love and use ourselves, so we want to tell as many people as possible about Passiv to help make investing easier for them. The session is on March 15, 2023 8pm EST and here’s the Facebook event […]
Is ChatGPT Coming to Take Your Job?
- Reader Case: Struggling to Get to FI with a Special Needs Child - June 5, 2023
- Why HomeExchange Beats Airbnb - May 22, 2023
- Let’s Go Exploring! Da Nang, Vietnam: The Next Digital Nomad Paradise? - May 8, 2023
Back in 2006, when we were about to graduate from engineering school, our biggest fear was having our tech jobs outsourced to India. Which, as it turns out, wasn’t unfounded considering how many jobs in my last company did get outsourced to Indian developers. I mean, how are you supposed to compete when they can work remotely for a measly $5/hour? And not only that, one of them even willingly missed the birth of their own child because he was on call for an “urgent production issue.” He never complained. But now, there’s an even bigger threat. A threat […]
Reader Case: How do I Squeeze More Income From my Portfolio?
- Let’s Go Exploring: Cusco and the Lost City of Machu Picchu - May 29, 2023
- Reader Case: Can I Move to Spain? - May 15, 2023
- Big Tech Is Laying Off Workers: Is Your Job Next? - May 1, 2023
When most people think about early retirement, they picture themselves flipping off their boss at work, strolling out the door, and retiring to a life of full-time leisure or travel, and there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s the narrative that most of the FIRE bloggers (including us) depict. However, that’s just one flavour of FIRE that may not be for everyone. Over the years, FIRE has grown from a loose collection of bloggers into a global movement, and with it more and more voices have been added to the conversation (which is great), and more and more variants of FIRE […]
Reader Case: From VP TO FIRE
- Let’s Go Exploring: Cusco and the Lost City of Machu Picchu - May 29, 2023
- Reader Case: Can I Move to Spain? - May 15, 2023
- Big Tech Is Laying Off Workers: Is Your Job Next? - May 1, 2023
What time is it? It’s Reader Case Time! Hello!!!! First of all, congratulations on being financially independent! You did what so many people aspire to do but don’t have the courage to follow through with. I’m a little envious, but at the end of the day, I didn’t put the hard work in like you did. BUT I’M READY NOW!! Up until January-ish of this year, I was the typical corporate brainwashed millennial. I wanted to climb the ladder and be a VP at my company. That very quickly changed and now I want nothing more than to get OUT! I watched […]
Reader Case: Swiss Family Early Retirement Plan Upended by the Current Market
- Reader Case: Struggling to Get to FI with a Special Needs Child - June 5, 2023
- Why HomeExchange Beats Airbnb - May 22, 2023
- Let’s Go Exploring! Da Nang, Vietnam: The Next Digital Nomad Paradise? - May 8, 2023
It’s been a while since we’ve done a reader case, so let’s break open the vault and take a look. This one is a tad involved, so let’s get cracking! Dear Kristy and Bryce, I have been following your blog and also read your book, not once, but twice. We have been preparing for FIRE for a few years and by the look of the numbers we will be FIRE ready in the next 2 years but a few things are holding us back. Including but not just the fact that, we made some very bad investment decisions in 2021 […]
