Author Topic: I’m 28, I just quit my tech job, and I never want another job again  (Read 2870 times)

luna

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Pretty good article with a mustachian way of thinking of life.

"My partner and I live fairly frugally, too, which made this a much simpler decision — and we could still do much better on that front. We even moved to Las Vegas specifically for the cheap housing, after being put off by the exorbitant cost of living nearer the coast. I'm glad we did, or quitting may not have been possible."

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8852017/quit-my-job

arebelspy

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He quit, but isn't FI.

At the bottom though it linked me to this article, which was a decent overview of FIRE for people new to the concept: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/1/8518455/extreme-early-retirement
I am a former teacher who accumulated a bunch of real estate, retired at 29, spent some time traveling the world full time and am now settled with three kids.
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As a programmer myself, the car/wheel analogy he uses feels pretty accurate. Overall it was a good read.

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I don't have a problem with trying to reinvent the wheel for its own sake, just to see if I can make a better wheel. But that's not what we were doing. We were reinventing the wheel when the goal was to build a car, and the existing wheel was just too round or not round enough, and while we're at it, let's rethink that whole windshield idea, and I don't know what a carburetor is so we probably don't need it, and wow this is taking a long time so maybe we should hire a hundred more people? You don't even get the satisfaction of tinkering with the wheel, because the car is so far behind schedule that your wheel will be considered finished as soon as it rolls well enough.