A working dad, starting a long journey to reach FIRE, contentment, or both.
Why am I, a father in his 40s, still a long way off from FIRE when so many financial bloggers are decades younger but way closer? Well, for me, it has more than a little to do with decisions made long ago that, if I had it to do again, I might have changed. The first thing I would have changed would have been to invest more when I was much younger.
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As I have moved into the personal finance blogging community*, I have seen a lot of people who appear to have followed their passions. Isn’t that what we’re told to do? At the very least, lots of people have escaped the 9-to-5 cube life by pursuing a passion. Aren’t we all aiming for that?
Not necessarily, according to Cal Newport. His book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, argues that following one’s passion is bad advice and can actually make things worse.