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Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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Navigating the Archaic, Convoluted, Confusing, and Utterly Enraging 401(k) Rollover Process

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I have attempt­ed to rollover my pri­or 401(k) accounts in the past few weeks. As you can tell from the title, every­thing has gone smooth­ly and eas­i­ly. HA! Just kid­ding. It’s been awful. For­tu­nate­ly for all of you, I took detailed notes on the whole process. If any Van­guard or Fideli­ty exec­u­tives read this post, sorry […]

Monthly Status Report: August 2020

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Dis­claimer: some links may be affil­i­ate links. They help off­set the cost of keep­ing this blog run­ning! Why do I do a month­ly sta­tus report? I find it best to do a month­ly sta­tus report for a few rea­sons. It helps me eval­u­ate how I did the pre­vi­ous month. Did I hit a tar­get reduc­tion in spend­ing or did I go way over bud­get for […]

The Privilege of Self-Employment

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In ear­ly 2018, I took a leap of faith into the unknown and quit my steady, ful­fill­ing W2 cor­po­rate job for the tur­bu­lent waters of self-employ­­ment. I’d talked to count­less entre­pre­neurs through the pod­cast and knew many suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs. How hard could it be if I were sur­round­ed by peo­ple mak­ing a com­fort­able liv­ing? Turns out the answer is […]

Saying Farewell to Early Retirement

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Recent­ly, I had the plea­sure of being fea­tured in a Mar­ket­Watch arti­cle. My views on the blog explod­ed and so did many of the read­ers’ heads. “She’s 27 and retir­ing with $200k in assets, most of those locked away in tax-advan­­taged accounts? Yeah, good luck with that. She’s not going to make it a year.” That seems to be […]