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Decided to payoff my mortgage.
Are investment properties good for retirement?
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The only way barista FIRE makes sense over traditional FIRE is if you are moving to a job you legitimately enjoy.
Otherwise, it's very hard to justify leaving a high income job (where you can hit traditional FIRE in generally ~5-10 years after barista fire numbers), for a low income job (where you may have to work for 10-20+ years). When at the end of the day you're unhappy working at both jobs, and one job results in being unhappy for a longer duration
Coach
There are exceptions to every rule, and I agree with you on this one. Sacrificing an extra 5 years working so you get more time with the kids now is something that can easily be justified. Good on you OP!
Subject Expert
Give a thought to low pressure jobs at a major airline. The flight benefits can enable amazing travel.
For me, teaching law or business at my local university. It won't be much but it'll include health insurance. Plus, I love teaching.
Man those BS pre-law advisor gigs are the best
Buddy of mine opened a badminton center.
He actually opened it while working a Corp finance role full time. Now it runs itself and he coast fires.
Mine is moving back home and being a scuba diver guide/instructor. I'm 36 with $1.8M in stocks/retirment accounts. I can coast/barista fire now but going to work til 40 then will scuba dive instruct for 3 to 5 years and fully retire. $5k/month is a very healthy income in my home country, which i am able to sustain indefinitely with what i have now if I wanted to traditionally retire, but not ready to yet.
Too many good places. Malapascua Island, love diving there. for ship wrecks, Coron Bay!!!
Ideas that spring to my mind: whatever you do today but part time/1099, state/local government, nonprofits, teaching, part time work for a friend's business, part time work in your hobby spaces (cleaning boats, working at a pool hall, books at a country club)
Also literal barista, of course.
Going to look into working in hobby spaces, like a local gym
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Pilates instructor 🤗
I am also exploring this. Lifetime has full time Pilates instructor openings, and has benefits, but would need to see if they would be willing to sponsor or pay for the training and certification
I want to be an instructor at the local race track.... or a flagger (but definitely no benefits there)