Freedom
The Dark Side of Quiet Quitting
- The Dark Side of Quiet Quitting - November 28, 2022
- How Travelling Saves You Money - November 14, 2022
- Reader Case: Swiss Family Early Retirement Plan Upended by the Current Market - October 31, 2022
You’ve all heard of the Great Resignation, but recently, there’s a more fashionable, inconspicuous quitting style called “quiet quitting”. What is “Quiet Quitting”? Instead of quitting your job and losing out on a severance package, why not just do the bare minimum? Welcome to Quiet Quitting. Inspired by the Chinese Lying Flat (躺平) movement, this idea came about after employee burn-out during the pandemic. Employees grew sick and tired of not getting paid to do extra work outside their responsibilities or taking on the double load from their ex-colleagues after the Great Resignation. This was their way of fighting back. […]
How Travelling Saves You Money
- The Dark Side of Quiet Quitting - November 28, 2022
- How Travelling Saves You Money - November 14, 2022
- Reader Case: Swiss Family Early Retirement Plan Upended by the Current Market - October 31, 2022
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”. –anonymous “But travelling is so expensive, I can’t afford to travel all the time.” “I don’t know what I would do with myself if I travelled to one place and stayed there for a whole month!” These are just some of the complaints I got from people I met while attending the Travel Summit. Having been out of the workforce for nearly 8 years now, it’s easy to forget what it was like to cherish those precious 3-4 weeks of vacation, then spend all year saving up for that […]
Meet Ken and Mary: Part 2
- Is a Buy Signal Flashing for Preferred Shares? - December 5, 2022
- Reader Case: From VP TO FIRE - November 21, 2022
- Is it Canada’s Turn for a 2008-Style Housing Crash? - November 7, 2022
After last week’s discussion about FIRE with kids and the Black Tax, without further ado here’s Part 2 of our interview with Kan and Mary from TheHumblePenny.com. This concept of the Black Tax is really interesting to me, because it echoes a lot of our friends who have to deal with this from an Asian background. Can you tell us a little more about how this affected you personally? Ken: Sure. One of my family members called and said to me, “I want to start this fish farm. I found this piece of land and I just need to buy […]
Meet Ken and Mary: Nigerian Immigrants who Became FI with 2 kids
- The Dark Side of Quiet Quitting - November 28, 2022
- How Travelling Saves You Money - November 14, 2022
- Reader Case: Swiss Family Early Retirement Plan Upended by the Current Market - October 31, 2022
FIRE is only for privileged people. FIRE is not doable unless you’re a DINK (double income no kids). We get this pushback all the time. Well, today, I’m going to introduce you to a couple who are neither of those. Meet Ken and Mary, the founders of TheHumblePenny.com, who became financially independent in 2017 at age 34 with two kids. They live in the UK but they both came from Nigeria and grew up with parents who struggled and gave them something that I know all too well—the immigrant mindset. I first met Ken and Mary in 2019 at the […]
Let’s Go Exploring! Plitvice and Split: Croatian History More Epic Than Game of Thrones
- The Dark Side of Quiet Quitting - November 28, 2022
- How Travelling Saves You Money - November 14, 2022
- Reader Case: Swiss Family Early Retirement Plan Upended by the Current Market - October 31, 2022
It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re surrounded by a wonderland of pure joy that looks like this: But somehow, I managed to do it. The cause? I’ll get to that in a minute. We ended up in this slice of paradise that Wanderer affectionately refers to as “Banff on steroids,” due to unrelenting peer pressure. We were told by every Croatian we spoke to (including the immigration officer) that “you MUST go to Plitvice (pronounced “plit-vitz-eh”). You can’t leave Croatia without visiting it, so drop everything and go NOW!” Okay, okay, we’re going. Yeesh. Isn’t it […]
