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The author has a kid. Just be careful that by retirement he doesn't mean "stop the work and do nothing". In the author's view retirement means financial indepe
by octopus 14y ago
The author has a kid.
Just be careful that by retirement he doesn't mean "stop the work and do nothing". In the author's view retirement means financial independence - the point in life where you don't need to work anymore but you work for your own pleasure (or you work on what you really like to do).
- Buzaga 14y agoyep, if I'm not mistaken he has an article named "first retire.. then get rich" where he mentions learning carpentry or something like that and making even more money, even tho he wouldn't need it
- marvin 14y agoHe has another article where he mentions that since he refused to remove the word "badassity" from his blog, the credit card companies revoked his affiliate agreement, costing him something like 800 dollars a month in blog revenues. But apparently this wasn't a big deal.
- mamoswined 14y agoActually I felt quite cynical about the whole thing until his article on kids softened me: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/26/what-is-the-real-cost-of-raising-children/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/26/what-is-the-real-c... Because I share the sentiment- I don't want to have to sacrifice a lot of time with my children for my "career" (the one that makes most of my money) at all. Even though I have little interest in retiring early, the same strategies can be used to save up to be able to work part time from home on less lucrative (but still skill-building/maintaining) projects when I have children. Maybe work for a non-profit like I started out at.