My misery in my job last year led me to appreciate the best parts of FIRE and ultimately to come to a new understanding of the journey to financial independence. It has also informed the core philosophy of our blog (i.e. the journey should be as remarkable as the destination). Over the past several months, I’ve even introduced the new term Slow FI into the FI lexicon, and it’s time to officially define it.
Gwen from Fiery Millennials shares her story in the latest installment of the slowing down series. Gwen shares how she saved a lot of money early in her adult life, which allowed her to later adjust her lifestyle to follow her passions, while still on the path to retire early.
One year ago, Corey and I officially decided to pursue financial independence. As I now look back on one year into our pursuit of financial independence, our life is very different today than it was a year ago. Financial independence played a huge role in redefining our lives.
After reviewing the popular financial independence milestones, I decided that I wanted to create new financial independence milestones. These new milestones would motivate, inspire and help me keep tabs on the impact that financial freedom has on my life today.
I was recently speaking with Chris Roane from Money Stir. Chris shared with me an interesting story where he decided to take a “step back” in his career after figuring out what kind of work would be a better fit for his skills and personality. When he initially made this decision to switch jobs, he took a fairly substantial pay cut. Less than two years after making this decision to find a job that was a better fit for him, he’s advanced in his career and is now making more money than before.
