FI for the People

I’ve had lotsa jobs since I started working while in high school. Some great. Some meh. A few dreadful. I detailed several in part in my Money, Man! series of posts.  I’ve thought of this a lot recently because of the recent mild disruption that I shrugged aft sturm und drang with my part-time job….

I’m an old and decrepit guy. Having gotten my first job as a teenager and my first full-time job out of college so, so very long time a while ago, I’ve been I was in the workforce for several decades. But in all that time, you know one thing I never faced, Dear Reader? A…

I first learned of FIRE in 2016 by way of a New Yorker article on Mr. Money Mustache (MMM). The piece referenced MMM’s blog, to which I soon thereafter headed. Before then, I don’t know if I’d ever read a single blog post, or listened to a podcast episode. On any subject.  MMM’s blog blew…

On the scale ranging from cockeyed optimists to the-world-is-ending pessimists, I’ve always been firmly closer to the latter than the former. Nature? Nurture? I dunno. Prob’ly both.  My parents were both muscle-flexing pessimists. Mom was all but a conspiracy theorist as to how people like us were destined to stay firmly under the heel of…

Dear Reader, it’s been a minute since I wrote a Wee We Wins blog post. Well, actually, it’s been a little longer than a minute. Like 1.67 million more minutes. Oops. In these Wee We Wins pots, which I use an unapologetic excuse to engage in 12-year-old-boy humor I highlight ways we’ve increased the spread…

In my last few posts, I reflected on the ups and downs of my post-FIREing life. Dear Reader, you and I laughed a little at those reflections. And we cried. It was as boring emotional as it was tedious insightful.  Well, as if all that wasn’t enough I’m still feeling a little reflective. So, I…

In my last post, I tortured regaled you, Dear Readers, with updates of whats I been up to since having FIREd a few years ago. Specifically, as to things I’d, pre-FIRE, hoped to accomplish or experience after FIREing. Surely you were bored to tears enthralled by my report, in which I related a mixed bag…

While working in my full-time gig, but after I discovered FIRE, I often fantasized thought about what it’d be like on the other side. Post-FIRE life, that is. Not whatever, if anything, comes after dying. Don’t get all morbid on me, Dear Reader.  I’d likewise thoughtfully stroked my chin considering specific things I’d (get to)…

Sssooo, it’s a new year. And this is my first post of 20234. I’m pretty sure that I’m legally required by the Internet Retirement Police (whose main responsibility is well documented by others, such as this fella) to post a recap of my and The Family’s 2023 what’sgoingons. As your faithful blogger considers this type…

In my last post, I discussed some ideas, strategies, and tactics that help pave the road to FIRE, but are so simple that I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of them myself. As was pointed out in a comment to the post, what ultimately mattered was that I acted on my newfound knowledge. And, I…