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Explore turning points, everyday joys and unexpected challenges after financial independence or retirement, with the date and original source for each account.

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Financial freedom kept opening doors to new kinds of work

Dec 2011Recalled in 2019

Life at the time

  • Sold the RV and moved from California to Chicago in seventeen days.
  • Accepted a finance role offered through a blog reader.

How it felt

  • Was eager to try work he had long wanted to explore. “easiest move ever”
  • Initially found a stationary, more spacious home strange after RV life. “strange living in a place”

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