when do I get my adult certificate?
It’s final, I’ve signed the contract with the new school and I’m moving on! I alluded to my job change when I talked about how I only spend $350 a month living in China. I didn’t mention the financial cost of that decision so let’s take a look at what made taking a pay cut…
April has been a heck of a month filled with activity after activity. It brought with it a lot of change and challenges. It was as if life took the saying of “April Showers” a little too seriously and decided to squeeze in a year’s worth of waterworks into 2 weeks. BUT! I persevered and…
April has been a heck of a month, being messy yet exciting in the way that only life can be. It’s made me think of this time last year, when I was in Rome with my sister, eating our body weight in pasta every day. It’s given me a renewed commitment to reaching FI to…
The days are longer, the sun is up before I am, and life is getting even better. I have a few self-improvement projects I have started half-way in March but want to properly track them in April. Here they are in no particular order: Track every penny I don’t use a budget right now because…
I used to do weekly wrapup posts but decided to keep the log for longer as the blog page was getting crowded. I’m also getting rid of Low Lights as part of my goal to reinforce positive thinking. When negative things pop up, I address them in the moment and move on. In the spirit…
In order to retire in 10 years, I will need to put away roughly $4,000 every month. I would need a monthly gross salary of $7500 if I lived in Toronto, which leaves me $4k after living expenses and taxes. In China, I have a gross monthly salary of $6100. The incredibly low cost of…
You know the question “what would you do if you didn’t have to worry about money?” I want to find the answer to that while I’m young and able to act on it. I’m not aiming for the traditional idea of an idle retirement. I’m envisioning more of retirement from mandatory work into elective work. It’s being financially…
It’s not much of a surprise that I don’t own a car. In the past 4 years, I’ve worked on three different continents and only this year I’ve managed to break $20k in net worth. If I decide to move back to Canada with ten times the net worth I still wouldn’t buy a car.…