Overcoming the need to feel useful when you've left your career is key to enjoying retirement. Diversify your life to prevent work from being your identity.
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TicTocLifeFrom Financial Independence to Retire Early at 35
TicTocLifeWelcome! Thanks for joining our story as we transition from two mid-thirties career-driven folks who reached FI at 33 to retire early at 35! We’re documenting our experience leaving full-time work, sorting out our financial needs, and our mistakes. All in real-time on this blog!
If you’re unfamiliar with FIRE, you should start with Financial Independence, Retire Early.
Take a look around our blog or find a list of all the articles we’ve written.
We hope to see you around more often,
Jenni & Chris
Overcoming the need to feel useful when you've left your career is key to enjoying retirement. Diversify your life to prevent work from being your identity.
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All those SMART goals might be the reason you keep failing at your New Year's Resolutions. A broad "yearly theme" might be the motivation you need!
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We review homelessness prevention programs for our donation, detail record high dividends in our December budget, and award a grant to Direct Relief!
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Our 2020 financial mistakes cost us over $40K! Here's how you can avoid the same failures in 2021 and lead a richer year.
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A message from the future warning me of the true cost of college may have changed the course of my financial life.
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Not every dollar is earned equally. Are you spending your least valuable dollars in such a way as to waste your most valuable resource, your time?
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What's our two favorite posts we've written so far and why?
What? My favorite post is on changing from full-time to part-time work.
Why? This has been my favorite post so far because it helped me reflect on what is really happening right now in my life as I change from full-time to part-time work. Getting it all out seemed to make it real and gave me the kickstart I needed to complete the next thing on my to-do list.
What? My favorite post reflects the mission of my writing on TicTocLife, it’s on how comparison is the thief of joy.
Why? Core to why I write here is to use you to amplify the underlying values FIRE and TicTocLife represent—for you to be a positive comparison for those in your life. To lift up those around you and be a teacher. In that post, I wasn’t overstating the idea that it’s your superpower.