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Fiery Millennials

Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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FIRE and Career Progression

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As my 31st birth­day rapid­ly approach­es, it rou­tine­ly sur­pris­es me that I have been a work­ing adult for a decade. As I reflect over my career, I won­der what the impact of my pur­suit of FIRE has had on my career.  I start­ed my career in the mil­i­tary as a mem­ber of the Air Nation­al Guard. I real­ized mil­i­tary cul­ture and I were […]

Interviewing for Jobs Sucks

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I think every adult in Amer­i­ca knows the strug­gle. The soul-suck­­ing, con­fi­dence drain­ing, emo­tion­al roller coast­er of a search that is inter­view­ing for new jobs. After my last round of inter­view­ing, I was so hap­py to be done with the cir­cus of apply­ing for new jobs. I thought, I found a real­ly great employ­er with great ben­e­fits. I could see myself having […]

What’s in a Job?

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2019 has been an inter­est­ing year for me job-wise. I start­ed the year at one com­pa­ny, left after 6 months for anoth­er com­pa­ny, and am now get­ting seri­ous­ly recruit­ed for yet anoth­er com­pa­ny after only 3 months! There are a few dif­fer­ent fac­tors in play I’m going to talk about. DC is a Dif­fer­ent Beast Things don’t work around here like […]

Back in the Saddle

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I am now offi­cial­ly a full-time employ­ee again! In the last episode, I was strug­gling to fig­ure out if I want­ed to go with Enti­ty A or B. Enti­ty B had me back for an all-day inter­view, but I did­n’t hear back from them fast enough to turn down the job at Enti­ty A. It’s pos­si­ble I could still hear some­thing from […]

Decisions, Decisions

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I feel a small point of clar­i­fi­ca­tion is need­ed from me before we dive into the meat of the post today after appear­ing in a Mar­ket­Watch arti­cle yes­ter­day. Most peo­ple walked away with the impres­sion I tried to retire on $200,000 at the age of 27 and I just want­ed to assure peo­ple that no, that’s not what I tried […]