Explore turning points, everyday joys and unexpected challenges after financial independence or retirement, with the date and original source for each account.
“I am enjoying the freedom from stress so much”
“I think I just have a finite amount of patience in a given day and now instead of using it all up on my job, I get to be more gracious and kind to my loved ones and that's pretty great.”
“extremely rewarding”
“It hit me that I fell right back into my old overwork habits despite my entire goal in starting the company I just sold being to break out of the intense grind and rat race that is capitalism in America.”
“The work environment had become much more stressful and political, and I dreaded coming into work every day.”
“Got a bit bored so took a contract, decent pay, $1500 per day. was for 170 hours spread out over about 5 months, so about 10 hours per week.”
“we’ve underspent by a significant amount.”
“Whatever the fuck I want - every day is Saturday.”
“So although we could have saved more and could have done better growing our nest egg, all that hard work and chaos ultimately got me this freedom, which is priceless.”
“I felt free — and it was blissful.”
