From Scarcity to Fioneering: Our Brief History with Money
You may be wondering how we got here. What’s the catch? Do we have family money? Is this only for the already wealthy? I’d be asking the same questions too. In many ways, I feel like we are regular human beings. We have managed our money fairly well, but we don’t have trust funds. We work in non-profits and, thus, don’t have million dollar salaries. As you’ll see in the rest of this post, we’ve done some things well that have helped to set us up for success.
Meet The Fioneers
We’ve created an intentional life of giving back. After getting married, we moved to a third-world country to teach English, and over the past decade, we’ve held various jobs of giving back to the community, often working for nonprofits (as we currently do). Despite this, our lives were supposed to be about more than just the 9-to-5, Monday through Friday grind. Yet, that is where we find ourselves. An aspired life of intentionality, purpose, and meaning has slowly evolved into a conventional story. While a few of the details are different (namely the tax status of our employer & our motivations), our recent life story has turned into the one that we have tried to avoid.
