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Sadly giving up on early retirement and going back to work

15 pointsby Thorondorabout 2 years ago

6 comments

ofcourseyoudoabout 2 years ago
I&#x27;m really uncomfortable with this guy&#x27;s reasoning. One of the motivations for him to go back to work is to feel less rejected by his children. In this post and a linked post he says he thinks he&#x27;s spent too much time at home with them and is deeply hurt that they prefer their mother over him. So he wants to go back to work to &quot;protect his heart&quot;.<p>I think that&#x27;s a waaaaay bigger issue for him to address than the financial ones. Maybe there&#x27;s truth to that experience but going back to avoid your children makes it seem like something is seriously out of whack here.
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HeyLaughingBoyabout 2 years ago
If it&#x27;s going to cost $1,500,000 for two kids to go to college in 12 years, the result will be that almost no one goes to college. At that point, <i>any</i> post-secondary education is going to look good to employers.
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s09dfhksabout 2 years ago
Sounds like the bigger listen here is if you want to fire, don’t have kids
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oxwabout 2 years ago
“OK, this is my belated April Fool’s Day post[...]”<p>The $1.5 million number is a joke
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__lbracket__about 2 years ago
Feels like a trivial message (&quot;yeah you need a regular job to raise a family unless you have FU money&quot;) packaged as a grand experiment. On the flip side, single folks or those without kids have been retiring for a long time (without calling it FIRE)
kylehotchkissabout 2 years ago
&gt; However, the Fed needs to pivot by the end of the year to prevent a 10%+ nationwide decline in real estate prices.<p>No they don’t! Think of how many couples are holding off on kids because of the housing prices.