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> Although I have been lucky to have some jobs that reimburse me well, I also don't have a car, house, wife (that's happening next month!) or go out drinking.

by ghgr 11y ago

> Although I have been lucky to have some jobs that reimburse me well, I also don't have a car, house, wife (that's happening next month!) or go out drinking. I find amusing that you include "wife" with all the other expenses. You'll become DINKYs ("Dual Income, No Kids Yet") and thus you will have even more financial independence :-). By the way, congratulations! > [..] but I've been following the bootstrapped community for a good few years) Could you please share the name of the community?

lucaspiller 11y ago
> You'll become DINKYs ("Dual Income, No Kids Yet") and thus you will have even more financial independence Haha, thanks! She is currently studying, and we will probably have kids in the next coupe of years - when we do she wants to take care of them rather than working, so unfortunately not! At least being Europeans we have good social welfare. > Could you please share the name of the community? There isn't a HackerNews-for-bootstrappers, at least I've found nothing worthwhile. There are a lot of disparate communities depending on what area you want to get into (e.g. creating a consulting agency, building a SaaS, internet marketing, brick-and-mortar business, etc). Most of what I follow revolves around Microconf, here are a few notable podcasts: http://bootstrapped.fm/ http://bootstrapped.fm/ http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/ http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/ http://nightsandweekendspodcast.com/ http://nightsandweekendspodcast.com/ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/
toong 11y ago
If you are on your own, you are the only one deciding when and how to spend money. You could be perfectly happy living cheap. I'm not sure the regular spouse would agree moving in into that 1-room studio/semi-frat-house and eating canned beans 5 times a week ?

by ghgr 11y ago

lucaspiller 11y ago

> You'll become DINKYs ("Dual Income, No Kids Yet") and thus you will have even more financial independence Haha, thanks! She is currently studying, and we will probably have kids in the next coupe of years - when we do she wants to take care of them rather than working, so unfortunately not! At least being Europeans we have good social welfare. > Could you please share the name of the community? There isn't a HackerNews-for-bootstrappers, at least I've found nothing worthwhile. There are a lot of disparate communities depending on what area you want to get into (e.g. creating a consulting agency, building a SaaS, internet marketing, brick-and-mortar business, etc). Most of what I follow revolves around Microconf, here are a few notable podcasts: http://bootstrapped.fm/ http://bootstrapped.fm/ http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/ http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/ http://nightsandweekendspodcast.com/ http://nightsandweekendspodcast.com/ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/

toong 11y ago

If you are on your own, you are the only one deciding when and how to spend money. You could be perfectly happy living cheap. I'm not sure the regular spouse would agree moving in into that 1-room studio/semi-frat-house and eating canned beans 5 times a week ?