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What is your most unexpected result from being FI?
winterfi:
For those of you have reached FI:
How has it changed your life in a way that you never realized it would?
Good or bad
TimeForFIRE:
One interesting result of being FI for the last few years is that on some level, I care less about how others perceive me at work so I show up more authentically and I speak truth to power...the results? Promotions and faster growth within my career. It's interesting how not being dependent on the job for security has freed me to perform at a higher level.
SKL-HOU:
--- Quote from: TimeForFIRE on November 14, 2018, 01:53:01 PM ---One interesting result of being FI for the last few years is that on some level, I care less about how others perceive me at work so I show up more authentically and I speak truth to power...the results? Promotions and faster growth within my career. It's interesting how not being dependent on the job for security has freed me to perform at a higher level.
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Sounds like "Office Space" :)
dougules:
--- Quote from: TimeForFIRE on November 14, 2018, 01:53:01 PM ---One interesting result of being FI for the last few years is that on some level, I care less about how others perceive me at work so I show up more authentically and I speak truth to power...the results? Promotions and faster growth within my career. It's interesting how not being dependent on the job for security has freed me to perform at a higher level.
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That's ironic. Honestly that should also apply to people on their way to FIRE with a decent pile of $FU. It's suprising how hard it is to internalize that mentality of not needing to care about the stuff that shouldn't matter.
chasesfish:
--- Quote from: TimeForFIRE on November 14, 2018, 01:53:01 PM ---One interesting result of being FI for the last few years is that on some level, I care less about how others perceive me at work so I show up more authentically and I speak truth to power...the results? Promotions and faster growth within my career. It's interesting how not being dependent on the job for security has freed me to perform at a higher level.
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I still haven't accepted this. I'm conflicted because I know I'm more talented and experienced than people being promoted above me, but took myself out of the running almost two years ago with some health issues my wife has been going through. Now I just can't choose to work that much and the level of idiocy runs so deep in the company I couldn't tolerate working for the grandboss either.
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