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Every person successfully doing this seems to also be selling something. From the article: "Mr. Jensen also practices an activity that for many FIRE achievers s
by bduclare 8y ago
Every person successfully doing this seems to also be selling something. From the article: "Mr. Jensen also practices an activity that for many FIRE achievers seems to be the new golf: writing a financial advice blog." That blog seems to be mostly affiliate marketing. There's even a comment here already (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894385) where the author talks about living without a job then posts a link to a book they're selling.
The real story here isn't about retiring early, it's about how to change your career to writing books about retiring early. Writing is still a job.
- rainbowmverse 8y agoIt's the new making money blogging by blogging about making money blogging.
- antt 8y agoThe simple question you need to ask yourself is: If everyone did this thing will it still work? If the answer is no, and you've seen it in popular media, don't do it. Can everyone retire in their 30s? Sure if life expectancy was 35.
- Franciscouzo 8y agoOf course you won't hear about those that are not writing about it, as they're not writing about it.
- hispanic 8y agoIf you want to find "real" people who have retired early, have a look at the threads in the "Post-FIRE" section of the Mr. Money Mustache forums: https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/post-fire/ https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/post-fire/ Speaking personally, I'm giving early retirement a try this year and I'm making it a point to _not_ bring in any "active" income this year, so as not to "dirty" my experiment. All of my income is passive, via dividends. I, too, have written about it, but my blog makes no money: https://blog.michaelscepaniak.com/starting-stopping-working https://blog.michaelscepaniak.com/starting-stopping-working