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Fiery Millennials

Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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How to Be a Freelancer

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I’d like to think I’ve learned a thing or two about free­lanc­ing since I quit my cor­po­rate job 6 months ago. It turns out, I have! But, it also turns out there’s a lot of things I’m not doing the best way. For­tu­nate­ly for me (and for you), I have a lot of tal­ent­ed free­lanc­ing friends that have tak­en me under their […]

Monthly Status Report: March 2017

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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 a par­tic­u­lar cat­e­go­ry? Did I earn more? What was my over­all sav­ings rate? It helps keep me account­able. How can […]

Recap: 2016 Edition

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2016 might have been an incred­i­bly sucky year by many stan­dards, but it was a ban­ner year for me on basi­cal­ly every front imag­in­able. I hit all of my per­son­al, pro­fes­sion­al, and finan­cial goals for the year, which I think is the first time that’s ever hap­pened for me. High­lights include trips to Seat­tle [Camp Mus­tache], San Diego [Fin­Con], and […]

Monthly Status Report: July 2016

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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 a par­tic­u­lar cat­e­gory? Did I earn more? What was my over­all sav­ings rate? It helps keep me account­able. How can […]

Monthly Status Report: February 2016

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Quick note: Astute read­ers may notice a change in this report. Mint is act­ing up again, so I’ve decid­ed to switch from show­ing updates from it to updates from my spread­sheet. Much more reli­able, even if it is a bit more work. I also decid­ed to show a more com­plete snap­shot of my finances and include my income and […]

2015 Year End Review

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Some­one once told me when I was younger that time speeds up as you get old­er. Being the 13 year old that I was, I pished at him and com­plete­ly wrote off his words of wis­dom. Boy, was he ever right. It seems like just yes­ter­day I was strug­gling to remem­ber to write ‘5’ instead of ‘4’ on my checks. […]