My ideal amount of working hours a day is four. A good four hour workday for me is probably working from 7:30am to 10:30am and then again for an hour during the evening to interact with international clients. I’ll fill the time in between with exercise, eating, entertainment, and family. The ideal amount of income […]
After retirement, what do you think you’re going to do? The obvious answer is save the world of course! If you don’t plan on retiring to something, you may end up experiencing all the negativities of retirement you did not know existed. OK, you can’t really save the world, but you can certain do things
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As students, it is trendy and idealistic to be Socialists. It’s just not cool to be a Capitalist while in school. We believe in our leaders and want to help as many people as possible through programs we don’t have to pay for. When we only pay a little or no taxes at all, of
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John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). The phrase, “Going John Galt ” or “Going Galt” is used to describe “productive” members of society cutting back on work in response to the projected increase in U.S. marginal tax rates, increased limits on tax deductions, and the immoral or inefficient use of tax revenues. I’m not sure if
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Do you have an ideal income and amount of work a day? I do. My ideal income is $350,000 for a family of four while working four hours a day. I like to work two hours in the morning before the family wakes up, and one to two hours in the afternoon and evening on
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Author Romeo Clayton of How We Prevent Wealth is hosting a challenge for all of us to figure out how much do we exactly need for retirement. He calls it “The Wealth Number Challenge” where we input our current age, savings, rate of return, current tax rate, annual contribution, years during retirement and more to
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All I want to do is nothing, if only just for a little while. I’m longing to take a break but my conscience won’t allow it! Let me share my thoughts I had back in May 11, 2012, a month after I negotiated a severance from my 11-year banking job. Longing To Take A Break
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Eddie from Finance Fox writes an intriguing post entitled, “Money Will Change You“. I salivate at the picture he uses because it is my dream to one day never have to fly commercial again! Having a matching Aston Martin waiting for me with Kate Upton in Monaco wouldn’t hurt either! When Eddie was in serious
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Financial Samurai Online Services (FSOS) was my consulting business I ran to help readers with their finances. However, as a father of two kids now, I’ve put my FSOS and Interview/Resume optimization services on pause. Dear Readers & Potential Clients, Over the past seven years, I’ve spent 35 hours a week amassing over 10,000 hours
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The following is an April 12, 2012 guest post from Mr. Money Mustache (MMM) about early retirement. As someone who kickstarted the modern-day FIRE movement in July 2009, I let MMM guest post on Financial Samurai to help spread the word. He had recently started his blog to focus on what we now call Lean
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