Guest Posts

Guest posts

Debbie M: Retiring early on $500,000

This is a guest post from Debbie M giving a detailed budget for a retirement plan costing half a million dollars. For most incomes, half a million means a less early retirement. Yet, it is still earlier than the “usual million(s)”.

Medicinesux: Wanting out

This is a guest post from the anonymous blogger behind medicinesux. I have been reading this blog for a while and decided to ask a guest post after the recent guest post from an anonymous lawyer led me to believe that professional careers(*) have much in common. For a book on the topic I recommend Disciplined Minds. Also see this paper and the resulting book.

Sawbones Surio: ERE Explained! Part 1 Part 2

Following the HUGE forum discussion of the ethics of extreme early retirement which resulted in 133 (and counting) responses. Sawbones Surio wrote a very useful thread summary on the forums. Since more people still read the blog compared to the forum, I asked him if he would be willing to turn it into a summary for the blog. Here’s part 1 of what he sent me. (You might want to read it together with the Borsodi post.)

Waking up from Big House Dreams: our crooked path towards early retirement

Yesterday, I asked if anyone was interested in sharing their plans for early retirement. TL Black, whom you may know from the comments on this blog and who blogs on The Simple Life in France, was quick to respond, and so here is her story.

TL Black: How is saving for extreme early retirement like learning to swim?

This is a guest post from TL Black, who recently wrote another guest post on her early retirement plans. It has to do with the difference between experts and beginners and the law of diminishing returns.

My Early Retirement Story

This is a guest post from deegee, who retired at 45 after slowly transitioning into part time work and who has been retired for one year now.

Extreme Early Retirement in Germany

This is a guest post from Hein Viermann. A freegan in his early 30s, who lives in Germany and wants to get out of the corporate career system. He invests mainly in real estate/rentals.

16 more months to retirement!

This is a brief summary of my financial life. My net worth is currently 580k and my goal is to hit 800k (26 times estimated future expenses) in the next 16 months. My spouse and I currently save 8k/month which is approximately 60% of our net annual household income of 140k.

The Push

This guest post was written by Robert Wringham, the editor of New Escapologist magazine. New Escapologist is a magazine for white-collar functionaries with escape on the brain.

My Early Retirement Plan

This guest post is from 20s Money talking about building financial independence from online income streams instead of relying on the traditional income streams from Wall Street.

Introducing Nine to Five’d in Dublin

I’d like to introduce another one of my applicants: Nine to Five’d in Dublin (MovieWriter for short), who is looking stop working a day job to focus 100% on writing screen plays.

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