At that time, my military wife was working in Silicon Valley, which sounds like a perfect situation for me as a software engineer. Now we have two boys ages 7 and 8. I blog, run customer service for a small Silicon Valley company, and sit dogs while their owners are away. It sounds like a lot and it can be, but I can mostly choose when, where, and how much I work. It has those elements of retirement, but it keeps me busy. FI is a difficult calculation for us because we have three rental properties and our primary residence with mortgages.
The kids go to an expensive but great private school. We get a very good military discount making it a reasonable investment. We could choose to be FI now, but we are not by most measures. We could choose to send the kids to public school. I put all my focus into personal finance as well. I was reading, writing, and connecting with financial bloggers. Personal finance was more interesting than software engineering in the corporate world.
Nowadays, I spend more time thinking about investments and a lot less time focusing on the basics of personal finance. I need to work on developing outside interests more. Because I have the side hustles and much of the responsibility to get the kids ready for school and after-school activities, I am still full of obligations unfortunately.
Some of the women work, but others seem to go to yoga class or meet for coffee to gossip. The private school parents and SAHD cultures are nearly complete opposite circles of people. I think they must either like their job or aspects of it like CEO power or have the inertia and habit of doing it.
Maintaining their old, historic homes is not cheap. Instead, I would say focus on either loving what you do and being great at it or developing multiple income streams to help you transition to something else. Right now I can throw my time and attention into the kids. There are limited number of positions and tough competition, so it requires a lot of long hours.
I thought that leaving my job and working on my own terms would be fantastic. It was for a while. Looking back, I gave up on software engineering to go to full-time blogging too early. It would have been better if there were hour a week engineering jobs in Silicon Valley. However, I am genuinely interested in business and investing as hobbies. I also have to write about them for the blog. I spend about hours a week on all that. Long term, I want to make it more than a blog. If you want to contribute, please contact me.
I think of myself as more retired than self-employed. I was busy, but I was so much happier than when I was working full-time. It felt like being retired. Over the years, I cut back on work and now life is even better.
Heh heh. Thanks, Brian for covering for me. I personally enjoy the process and the game of business and making money, but just not at the expense of doing it for a large corporation and having a manger breathe down my neck.
I also feel like focusing on FI instead of RE is also great for couples. Coasting just seems so bland and boring. But financial independence seems exciting and attractive to me. However, this month was a little different.
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It's usually only once a year and my answer has always been that it's probably time to diversify with international stocks and bonds, REITs Real Estate Investment Trusts , and other investments.
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As Rental Mindset explains , this is typical: There are hundreds of bloggers who publish every detail about their finances.
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