Discover the risks of individual stocks vs index funds. Learn from my costly mistake and make fruitful investment decisions to help you reach FIRE!
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This is an archive listing of all of our FIRE Story posts on TicTocLife. These posts contain personal history and background that unfolds as the journey of our individual lives.
You’ll learn much more about either author, Chris or Jenni, in the posts here.
Learn to adopt the notion “everything is for sale”. When considering a purchase, analyze expected future value. Buy quality instead of limit yourself by a budget.
Changing from full-time to part-time work will put your life into a spin, but there are good reasons to work part-time. I’m going from salary to hourly!
How can unmitigated lifestyle creep destroy your wealth? A simple decision between two apartments created nearly $52K worth of opportunity cost for me!
Frugal vs cheap: what’s the difference? Building frugality focuses on value while cheap fixes short-term issues but creates long-term problems.
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Meet Jenni
Meet Jenni, who started elementary school dreaming to be an anesthesiologist only to find herself as a debt-ridden pharmacy graduate decades later. It’s the story of a new American Dream.
If you’re on the path to FIRE, you need an early retirement plan. You don’t simply flip a switch one day and retire. Learn from our own outline and strategy!
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Meet Chris
From sleeping in a dining room while starting a business—to living between dirt floors and tin roofs while finding a fulfilling life exploding with independence—this is how it happened.