I’ll tackle the FIRE movement and why I wouldn’t recommend to people to pursue it in a later post, but I was asked what don’t they tell you about retiring early.
Well, it’s the “then what?” bit that they never talk about isn’t it?
Many people, if they’re unhappy in life, tend to focus on one thing – say, their job – and put all of their unhappiness on that.
When I decided to stop following my religion, my dad – who did that himself years before I did – told me not to think that this alone will now solve whatever unhappiness I have in my life.
it might make the circumstances a bit better, but you have to find what truly makes you unhappy, and it’s rarely what you initially think it is, and deal with that.
There’s a great podcast I listen to about retiring early that I highly recommend, the host sold a startup company and retired in his 20s and, well, I’ll let you hear for yourself what happened next.
Hope that helps
Jon
Human Action 