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Thanks for reading! Yeah, I've never considered myself a huge spender. I'm still happy with my decision to pay for an expensive apartment close to my office wh

Thanks for reading! Yeah, I've never considered myself a huge spender. I'm still happy with my decision to pay for an expensive apartment close to my office when I was an employee because my income was high and not having to commute saved me so much time and stress every day. But early last year, one of my readers sent me links to Mr. Money Mustache and his ideas about low-spending / FIRE definitely influenced my thinking.

philsnow 8y ago
> I'm still happy with my decision to pay for an expensive apartment close to my office when I was an employee because my income was high and not having to commute saved me so much time and stress every day. I worked for big tech companies for 10.5 years and, because I started having kids early in my career, I had a single family home and a long commute. I did the sad math and figured that I probably spent over 6000 hours over that decade just commuting. It is said that to become an expert at something you should spend about 10k hours working on it. If I didn't make a change I was going to reach 10k hours of commuting, so last year I got a remote job and it's been pretty transformative.