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Fiery Millennials

Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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New Place, New Me.…… Nah

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I recent­ly moved into an apart­ment of my own. The last time this hap­pened was 4.5 years ago! I’ve had room­mates on and off through the years. My first two years of col­lege I had a room­mate. I had many room­mates when I was in the Air Force (59 oth­er women for 2 months!). The first place I lived after col­lege […]

Affinity Fraud in the FI Community

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I’ve been watch­ing events unfold in the last year or so in the FI Com­mu­ni­ty with some alarm and I can no longer keep silent about what I’m see­ing. I hes­i­tat­ed about writ­ing this post, as I try to keep this blog about my expe­ri­ences on the path to Finan­cial Inde­pen­dence and not about “dra­ma” in the com­mu­ni­ty […]

Always Be Interviewing

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Today’s post is a guest post by my won­der­ful friend Mr. Waf­fles on Wednes­day. We first met almost 2 years ago and hung out for a week in Ecuador at Chau­tauqua 2017. I also went to vis­it them in Cal­i­for­nia last year. Mr. WoW and I have some pret­ty great philo­soph­i­cal con­ver­sa­tions, and recent­ly a lot of those have been on […]

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 […]

Beware of the Compare

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Hi all, I’m Finan­cial Mechan­ic, and I write about tools that can help every­one in their pur­suit of finan­cial inde­pen­dence.  I found Fiery Mil­len­ni­als when I first learned about FI as a con­cept and have enjoyed fol­low­ing Gwen’s escapades. I am con­tin­u­al­ly impressed by her aplomb, and thank her for shar­ing my writ­ing with you! This arti­cle delves into how […]

A New Perspective

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I’ve always con­sid­ered myself pret­ty short. It seems every­one I know tow­ers over me. The aver­age Amer­i­can woman is 5′4″ so I was lit­er­al­ly of aver­age height. I say “was” because it appears I have grown an inch some­where along the line and I now check in at 5′ 5″ tall. I have longed to be taller ever since I hit […]