Miscellaneous

I held a vari­ety of jobs in high school. I was a babysit­ter, camp coun­selor, life guard, retail work­er and final­ly staff at a day care. Hav­ing all these jobs meant I could save some mon­ey, have a bit for spend­ing, and save up for the down pay­ment for this lit­tle beau­ty. I knew I could­n’t afford much, so I found one of the […]

I’m not a bor­ing old bro­ker. I’m not a fee hun­gry finan­cial advi­sor. Nope. I’m just like you. Just a nor­mal (ok maybe not that nor­mal…) per­son going through the motions of life. EARLY CHILDHOOD I grew up pret­ty poor. My par­ents divorced when I was 2, so my mom was faced with the chal­lenge of rais­ing 3 girls (aged 2–12) by […]

Wel­come to my blog! If you are a mil­len­ni­al who hates the rat race, this is the place to be! I start­ed this to doc­u­ment my jour­ney to Finan­cial Inde­pen­dence. My goal is to help guide my fel­low mil­len­ni­als (that’s right, all you youn­gins out there. Yes, you.) along sim­i­lar paths to finan­cial free­dom. Mil­len­ni­als are a group […]