Hi!
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 1:33 pm
Hi. My name is Marc and I read Early Retirement Extreme about two months ago after reading the blog for a few months.
My family and I were about $100,000 in debt in January(almost entirely student loans) and now we are down to $92,000.
I heard about Mr. Money Mustache on The Tim Ferris Show a couple of years ago and started reading his blog. Unfortunately, I was already trying to obtain a teaching credential because I am a substitute teacher and I thought it would be a good way to increase my income. Apparently, I should have just became an electrician.
I signed a contract to be an actual teacher in March, but the rescinded it because they said my references were unfavorable. I have a degree in Creative Writing, but I am not sure how to really monetize that so I have started making my own laundry detergent, buying my clothes from thrift stores, cutting my own hair (which my wife is not a fan of) and even making my own buttons using plastic straws, an iron, and some wax paper.
I have a long way to go. I like to ride my bike to work sometimes and I have read enough Stoic philosophy to expect my bicycle to be knocked down every day I do.
I'm also into Austrian economics and plan on finishing Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State this summer. I also read Harry Brown's How I became Free in an Unfree World and am trying to devise a new plan to earn more money using the skills I already have that do not involve teaching or digging myself into any more debt. Hopefully I can get some ideas on how to do that in this forum.
Thanks.
My family and I were about $100,000 in debt in January(almost entirely student loans) and now we are down to $92,000.
I heard about Mr. Money Mustache on The Tim Ferris Show a couple of years ago and started reading his blog. Unfortunately, I was already trying to obtain a teaching credential because I am a substitute teacher and I thought it would be a good way to increase my income. Apparently, I should have just became an electrician.
I signed a contract to be an actual teacher in March, but the rescinded it because they said my references were unfavorable. I have a degree in Creative Writing, but I am not sure how to really monetize that so I have started making my own laundry detergent, buying my clothes from thrift stores, cutting my own hair (which my wife is not a fan of) and even making my own buttons using plastic straws, an iron, and some wax paper.
I have a long way to go. I like to ride my bike to work sometimes and I have read enough Stoic philosophy to expect my bicycle to be knocked down every day I do.
I'm also into Austrian economics and plan on finishing Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State this summer. I also read Harry Brown's How I became Free in an Unfree World and am trying to devise a new plan to earn more money using the skills I already have that do not involve teaching or digging myself into any more debt. Hopefully I can get some ideas on how to do that in this forum.
Thanks.