Finding joy on the journey to financial independence
“But, what in the world would you do if you didn’t work?!”
If you’re on a journey to financial independence, and plan to retire earlier than the traditional 60-65 work-til-you-drop age range, do you ever hear this response when you share your plans with others?
I may be on a journey to financial independence, but for the longest time, when I was still on the hamster wheel, it was just a feeling of “I’ll get there when I get there”. I liked working, and I didn’t have any plans to stop. How the times have changed!
Continue reading “How Part-Time Work Became My Goal”If you’ve been reading the blog so far, you know that when I first discovered the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement around 7 years ago, the whole “retire early” part didn’t really resonate with me. At the time, I was just starting a postdoctoral fellowship and had dreams of being a big-time professor. I was still on the hamster wheel, and I had no intention of slowing down anytime soon.
Continue reading “My Current Financial Independence Goal”One day several years ago, during pre-pandemic normalcy, I walked in the house from being out and about somewhere (remember when that used to happen on the regular?!), and Mr. Dink told me he had a crazy idea.
Continue reading “Ok, So What’s The Deal With The Bus?”At the first company I worked for after I left academia, the one where I took the hefty pay cut, we had biweekly team meetings. These meetings always started with an icebreaker as a way to get to know each other and increase team morale.
Continue reading “DINKs: Double Income, No Kids”If you read my first post, you know that one of my intentions with this blog is to tell my story, and that I’m a big fan of Brene Brown. Well, Brene always starts her podcast Unlocking Us with the same question of the person she is interviewing: tell me your story. Today, I want to tell you my story. But let’s start with the basics.
Continue reading “My Story: The Basics”Hey there! Thanks for stopping by the blog for my first post. This is the place where I intend to chronicle my slow FI (financial independence) journey and our dream of building out a school bus so that we can travel the country part time. But my hope is that this blog will be so much more than that! I have a lot going on in this brain of mine, and a lot of things I want to share with the world. Disclaimer: I plan to sometimes get vulnerable and talk about hard things. I strongly believe that if we could all just get more comfortable with being vulnerable, the world would be a lot better of a place. Thus, I’m not really sure if I perfectly fit into the personal finance blogging space, but I’m also not sure that it matters. I believe that telling our own unique stories and putting them out there in the world will help there to be more open hearts and less hatred, so that’s what I intend to do. Who’s coming along?
Continue reading “Welcome to DINKS on a Bus!”
