Who doesn’t like a blast from their past? Recently, Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Life has been in the press discussing the updated version of the 1992 classic Your Money Or Your Life.
For me, this book sparked my imagination and inspired me after reading just a few pages when I came across it in the library in 1997. Retrospectively, I realized how I missed this book when it first came out because we were pretty busy raising very young children while keeping a job that required overnight travel.
Bottom Line #1. I’ll cut right to the chase. Read the recent article on what all of this FIRE hubbub is all about.
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It has been exactly 30 years since we sold our townhouse in Skokie, IL, which we owned for less than a year, and moved to Massachusetts so that I could take a job in scientific sales & marketing. It was a significant risk for a “YUPPIE” couple that had been married for only a couple of years. mrsfromthebachrow quit her job for me to make the career leap to an area that would later become the biotech capital of the world. Did we comprehend the scale of picking up and moving in a very short period? Nope, didn’t have a clue, but the youthful exuberance and the quest to get out of a dead-end and toxic laboratory job motivated to act. After 30 years, I can now pause and reflect on parts of the experience since that risky repositioning.