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Fiery Millennials

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 […]

Financial Headwinds on the Path to FI

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I’ve been see­ing some thoughts pop up on Twit­ter over the last few months that have sparked an idea in my brain. Obvi­ous­ly, every­one’s jour­ney to Finan­cial Inde­pen­dence will look dif­fer­ent. But what are some of the ways our paths dif­fer? Our jour­neys are dif­fer­ent because we’re all fac­ing dif­fer­ent finan­cial head­winds. Let’s look at […]

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 […]

The Great Car Debate

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Long time read­ers will know one of the keys to my suc­cess was buy­ing, and keep­ing, my 2005 Pon­ti­ac Vibe in 2011. I bought Levi with under 100,000 miles on him for $8,000 in cold hard cash after a deer anni­hi­lat­ed my pre­vi­ous car. (It was a 2002 Dodge Neon. A real POS) Since then, I’ve bought new tires, […]

Monthly Status Report: March 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 […]