An article in marketwatch.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...arly-retirees-and-why-theyre-wrong-2018-04-25
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...arly-retirees-and-why-theyre-wrong-2018-04-25
In my day, it was called a "second job". That's the way it was... and we liked it.And...enough with the term, "side hustle".
Clogging up the coffee shops @ 10:00 am? Grocery shopping ailse @ 3:00 pm? Reserving all the pet sitters in town to go on dreamy vacations?
Most of these apologetics are pure and simple lying. I read recently where some ER blogger admitted that without claiming to be retired, no matter how successful they are and "how much fun" they claim to be having, people read them becaue of their assertion that they are "retired".
Question- if you hate corporate life, and you buy a laundromat or a dry cleaner business, are you retired?
Only by vastly bending the meaning of the English language is this retirement. It may have a different set of rewards and costs from the usual occupation, but imo retirement it is not. And the term of art, "side hustle" is also very interesting. It wasn't long ago that people called women who sold sex, cardsharks, and anyone who was a grifter or dealt in shady goods or services a hustler, and their acts hustles.
My rule is to discount almost all of this "retirement blogger" bs.
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+1
In addition to buying the last package of #10-24 stainless steel machine screws at Lowe's mid-morning on a Wednesday.
Haha,
I don't mind the general LBYM message from MMM, but if he writes anything on his blog, at least 100 of his devoted followers immediately post to agree with his every word. It is kind of like a cult.
He hates large SUVs and trucks. He posted that he knocked on a woman's SUV window, because she was idling her engine in a parking lot, and he didn't approve.
I suggested that he gets to have an opinion, and he might be right, but trying to physically make people live by his preferred rules is going a little too far. I asked if he would have done the same thing if it was two male construction workers in their big truck. Pure silence, and no comments. Never question the cult leader.
Take care,
JP
Maybe hypocrisy is the new black?It seems hypocritical to complain about a SUV driver when he is likely to be a much higher total energy user than an average person in the U.S.
If you are truly FI, and stop working, you're retired. If you go back to work, you're not.
My idea of FIRED is leaving the full-time work force, travelling, writing magazine articles, and selling underwater photos. It will be for fun, and not for money, although it may help pay for more trips. Will I be retired or just repurposed?
For those who are FI, but working part-time, I'd say semi-retired is appropriate.