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What did you end up doing after the 3 years? Why did you end it?
by mrfusion 5y ago
What did you end up doing after the 3 years? Why did you end it?
- paulcole 5y agoGot a job. Had 6 months of expenses left in the bank and didn’t want to risk dipping into stocks. I wasn’t wealthy in the HN sense though. This was 2010-2013 and my rent for a tiny studio apartment was $550 a month. Other major expenses were just internet (50 a month), groceries (few hundred a month), gym (35 a month) and electricity (20 a month). No cell phone. No car. For the 5 years leading up to that I was working full time during the day and doing freelance SEO writing side. Was able to save quite a bit. But I was really fortunate to be in the right time/place. Rent in my city had basically doubled (and then some) since then, for example.
- leesec 5y agoThis is crazy impressive to me man, props. No phone/no car is rebellious in this day and age.
- paulcole 5y agoLol thanks. I'm nearly 40 and still holding out on both. Never driven, never owned a smartphone. I have a pay as you go flip phone I got at Office Depot for work in 2015 but I never turn it on unless I need to make a call that won't go through Google Voice.