My Current Financial Independence 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.

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Ok, So What’s The Deal With The Bus?

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.

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My Story: The Basics

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.

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