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When I am employed I feel miserable. My life is grinded away occupied at work for 8 hours a day and several hours in addition to that getting ready and going from and to work. Not only that, my life is totally controlled by an employement, it decided when I shall eat and when I shall sleep, when I ...

Lordmetroid you have been off for a while. Sounds like you are really enjoying it. I dont quite understand the original purpose of your mini retirement though. I am curious as to what it was? I am not having a mini-retirement on purpose, I got laid off as the whole development department was to be ...

Three more people I know just died this weekend. One was hit by a stoned driver that veered into the opposite lane. The other two died due to illness at the hospital. One of the guys, in his 30s, about the same age as me. Suffered meningitis.

I am still far away from financial independence, still ...

Since I hate taking orders and working for the man, having my entire life scheduled around my boss' needs I want to quit that lifestyle as soon as possible. I bumped into the concept of Extreme Early retirement last year so I started to save about 50% and according to Tyler9000 's FIRE-time ...

Hello all,

I got my first real job four years ago at the age of 28 as a production artist for a friend's company. Before that I had enjoyed life as unemployed or a student with some stray summer jobs. I have never liked the idea of a regular job, and ever since I started working full time I have ...