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Unemployed Loser Or Bitchin’ Individual Investor?
Today is my first day without a job since I was in high school. I turned in all of my work equipment, said all the final goodbyes, and very anti-climactically walked out of the building on my own. It felt a little bit like a jail break because I was sure that a company the…
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We have health insurance, now fuck off…
As was forecast in in a previous post, we selected the Cigna Global Silver plan. Hopefully we’ll never find out how good, bad, or mediocre our new international health plan is. Wasting thousands of dollars on premiums and never using health insurance is a great outcome. A better outcome would be not buying health insurance…
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Travel Vaccination Magic 8 Ball
When you have a list of 27 places that you might travel to, the vaccination plan becomes a project of its own. Reading through CDC recommendations became complicated enough that I had to put together a tracking spreadsheet. It was either that or one of those serial killer tracking bulletin boards with strings and push…
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I’ll Show You Mine (Budget)
With tariffs bringing chaos to the market, this is an entertaining time to take a look at our budget for the upcoming premature FI experiment where we will travel internationally for a full year. I find the budgeting aspect of this interesting because we have different moving parts that we don’t normally deal with in…
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Career Suicide In The Age Of AI
The timing of our year long international adventure is fragile. There are many reasons which I’ll cover later that point to this one year window as our only chance to pull this off. The fragility of this window drives us full steam ahead to seize this opportunity for an amazing adventure. We realize very clearly…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
