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What’s the consensus on having a professional handle your investments? I like the passive nature of this strategy and not having to worry about losing it all. My only concern: would the 3% rule still appply, or would I have to use a 2% swr instead to account for fees? If it’s 2%, I figure I can alwa...

Adult friendships don't interest me. Anything I could talk about with another man I could just say in my own head. It's not like high school where you could goof around and stay up all night playing GTA. No pesky job to go to the next morning. No worries.

All I need now is a romantic partner.

Let's be frank: wooing and maintaining women is insanely expensive for most men. It's also our main motivator in life.

I'd be perfectly content living in a box and playing on the internet all day... but I need to be touched.

I too am trying to figure out how to stay sane during the accumulation phase. I've hated every minute of my life since I started working. Here's my routine: - 1 hr and 10 min commute to work - *fake stupid smile* "Hello Bob, hello Jim" - 8 hours of being on fight-or-flight mode, struggling...

Oh, I don't know... hike, build the body of a Greek god, read, play videogames, travel... live. There are a million things I want to do but can't because of my 50 hour work week. That's why I'll never understand these kind of posts. If it's that much of an ordeal, then give your free time to MMMMEEE...

I find these kind of posts highly discouraging. And it's not just Boggleheads. Whenever I post on another forum asking if I can retire in 5 years with say... a paid off condo and $300K, everyone says it can't be done. Gonna need at least three times that. But when I do the math, expenses < 3% safe w...

What are you going to do with an economics degree? I studied something similar (at a reputable school), and it took me 4 years to land a job that pays above minimum wage. I'd find a way to switch majors if you can. Comp sci, a few engineering fields, or at the very least accounting. Those are the on...

Night shift security guard. Though I'd only do it if I could be left alone and mess around on my laptop. If they want me to play Paul Blart and ward off baddies or something, forget it.

I've made a lot of progress just by doing this aesthetics-focused routine twice a week: 3 incline bench 3 chinups 3 overhead press 4-5 lateral raises 4-5 suspension band face pulls 3 bicep curls 3 tricep pushdowns The raises, face pulls, and pushdowns are all done rest pause style. Everything else i...

The Philippines offers a lot of that. Plus if you're a single man, there will be no shortage of loving, attractive, young women who want to be with you.

$1K/month would afford a comfortable life in PI.

Good thread. Even just $500/month from online income would allow one to ERE SO MUCH sooner. Assuming it doesn't take ridiculous hours to make that amount. From what little research I've done, there are basically four ways to make money online: programming, vlogging/blogging, selling a product, and d...

Assuming someone owns a paid off one-bedroom condo, how much would he need in savings to ERE? I assume it would require much less than the usual target numbers, no? Also, would it be realistic to rent out the living room? Or alternatively, rent out the bedroom and sleep in the living room yourself? ...

I'd totally be a sugar baby if there were actually some demand for average blokes. It's fun to imagine playing boy toy to generous Selma Hayek clones. In reality I'd be a renting out my orifices to some old queen for pennies. As I become more financially secure I'll probably become a sugar daddy of ...

I never had any success on OkCupid/POF/Tinder, and I'm reasonably good looking. Of course if you're some kind of Adonis, I guess those sites can work.

I've thought about semi-retiring with $300K. Should have that much saved by my early-mid 30's. Maybe move to a small town with just enough to cover my basic living expenses. Make a little money online somehow to add to my stash and take romance vacations to SEA. My original number was $500k, but ful...

I went out with colleagues one night and we got talking about money. I told them I save 90% of my pay check. "What are you saving for?" one girl asked. "A vacation?" "Financial freedom." "What do you mean?" another girl asked. "Do your parents control you...

I try to get in a decent amount of protein (60-100 grams a day) for body composition and feeling full. Stay away from liquid calories. Intermittent fasting. Weigh myself everyday. I don't think about it too much though as maintaining a low weight has always come easy to me. Going to work each day ta...

My parents were planning on selling their house and downsizing due in part to the massive housing bubble in my city. They were going to buy me a 2-bedroom condo in cash. Nevermind ERE. With rental income, I could've straight up FIRE'd if this panned out. So for months I walked around with a skip in ...

I have a huge sex drive, I think most male do, and I accepted me never having enough sex as a part of life. It feels that all the men between 15 and 60 are competing for about a third of the women between 18 and 35, and as it's probably simililar to a winner takes all game, men are doomed to be fru...

I'm around 30 years old and having been working a standard office job for the past several years. I put on a happy face, both for colleagues and family... but inside I'm MISERABLE. And to think there's people at my job who've been doing it for 10, 20, or even 30+ years. :shock: Despite a mediocre sa...