One of the benefits of early retirement is that you have extra time to look back and reflect on your life. I have already an intense habit of this and have always spent a fair amount of time researching and remembering “days gone by”. It’s a curious trait. I have read that in the early 1900s, ‘nostalgia’ was actually classified as a form of depression. … Continue reading Retirement Reminiscing – My Old School
Today we have an extra special guest – for the first time ever we are joined by the wonderful MrsFireStation – who will share her own thoughts on Captain Sparky’s escape from corporate life and our new life of leisure in early retirement … My background … I’ve been a stay-at-home Mom for 18 years and our son is a senior in high school and … Continue reading The Better Half – Thoughts From MrsFireStation
People hate Monday mornings. Today is the first day in more than a month – since I left MegaCorp for early retirement – that I am getting up for some kind of work. I’m heading out of town for a one day meeting with a company for which i serve on the board of directors. It’s a paid gig once every 90 days – but … Continue reading Monday Morning We Hate You
As I am out enjoying my third week of early retirement right now, I thought instead of writing a full post today I would share something that I found inspirational over the years, especially when I was looking for motivation or facing seemingly impossible odds. It is a poem from Edgar Albert Guest, an amazingly prolific writer who penned over 11K poems in his career. … Continue reading FIRE Inspiration – Edgar Guest Poem
I am slowly coming to the realization that I now have time to waste. I say that in the most positive sense. While I still have a few weeks of work left before I early retire, I don’t feel nearly as rushed as I used to. It’s nice to feel that wasting a little time isn’t such a bad thing. After all, as John Lennon … Continue reading Having Time To Waste
As I wind down my last few weeks on the job at MegaCorp, I am reflecting a bit on all of the jobs I had when I was a kid – before I graduated from college and started working professionally. As I look back, I figure that I only had about 18 months time off of work from the time I was in 6th grade … Continue reading Kid Jobs & Perks
Someone recently asked me if so don’t like my job. Their line of questioning seemed to be based on the idea that you’d only quit your job and retire early if it was BAD – instead of the idea that not working would be better. For me, my planning to retire early is secondary to my hapless at work. Truthfully, my job is very … Continue reading Make Sure Time Is On Your Side
I don’t tend to be a person who focuses too much on New Year’s Resolutions. I do like the idea of setting self-improvement goals – and New Year’s is as good a time to adopt them as any time of the year – but I tend to adopt goals in more of a catch-as-can manner throughout the year than lining up a whole slew of … Continue reading New Year’s & Early Retirement Goals
When I talk to friends, family and neighbors about my (mostly) secret plan to escape MegaCorp next April and live a life of early retirement, I’m starting to notice that the reactions people have result in one of about a dozen predictable comments. Most people (90%) are nice and say “good for you, that’s amazing”. But other times – a small percent of the time … Continue reading Chatting with Friends – Odd Comments & Snappy Remarks
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