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Fulfilment and the FIRE Movement: The Realities of Life After Early Retirement
(knowledge.insead.edu)
NGL - this is one reason I am on the fence about having kids.
I just update my house value once a year with a close approximation to what Zillow says is the value. So if Zillow shows my house is estimated at $515000, then I will input that it's $500000 in my spreadsheet for this year.
It may go up or down throughout the year, but since I have no plans to sell I don't really care about the noise.
Wow. That sounds like terrible management. If you don't know what your employees are doing for an entire year, you are failing at your job as a manager.
Glad to hear you got out.
This is pretty niche, but I'm in a casual curling league and nearly everyone is over 40. Everyone there is super welcoming and friendly.
In other good news this week:
After maximizing the anticipation with incremental gains this week, I finally crossed the $500k mark in invested funds!
Here's to hoping the market can hang on until the end of the month, so I can memorialize this milestone in my spreadsheet.
I wonder if finding a good tax advisor runs into the same problem as finding a financial advisor - in order to know if they are worth the money, you have to know enough that just doing it yourself would make more sense.
While I've never used one, my sibling was given very bad information by her new husband's tax advisor when they were doing taxes last year.
Got my performance evaluation back from work and received "outstanding". Last year, that meant I ended up getting a much higher than expected bonus. Given the company has indicated they don't have much funding for the bonus pool this year, and they haven't been giving raises the past few years, I'm curious how my review will relate to compensation adjustments this year.
Skiplagging is expressly forbidden by airlines and they will absolutely ban you if they realize that's what you are doing. They have even sued the guy who popularized the concept because of how much they hate people doing it.
But yes I am assuming they would treat your plan similarly.
Why don't you just book two one ways?
Airlines really don't like it when you try to play games to save money. They have complicated algorithms to price their flights based on demand on where you are traveling from.
If you cancel the return often enough on the same airline, they are very likely to just ban you in the future. This is even more likely to happen if you book your flight to Germany through the same airline as the return. It won't happen right away. It might never be an issue for you. But be careful if being banned completely by a major airline would be problematic for you.
Asking where you are from is pretty normal conversation, especially if you have a noticeable accent. Asking where your parents/grandparents/etc are from is less common. Are you by chance not-white? Sometimes these sorts of questions have a race element to them
Go for daily walks in nature.
Do yoga
Play a recreational sport that interests you
Read (I guess that's still consumption)
Write
Volunteer for a cause you care about