Is the Financial Freedom Quest a Guy Thing?

Published in January 24th, 2006

Men posters outnumber women posters by a 10 to 1 ratio at the raddr-pages.com discussion board on early retirement topics. Is the financial freedom quest “a guy thing”?
I say “no.” My experience with my book has been that women respond to it more strongly than men. My sense is that women and men respond to [...]

A Six-Month Trial for Your Dream Job?

Published in January 17th, 2006

Posted by Rob in Passion Saving, The New Luxuries

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Kathleen Megan wrote a sidebar to her article entitled “Taking the Leap: They Quit Their Day Jobs to Follow Their Dreams” (See the blog entry for January 13, 2006) entitled “Advice From Those Who Have Been There.” The advice offered is either to do your dream work while still holding down a day job until [...]

Taking the Leap to Soul-Satisfying Work

Published in January 13th, 2006

Posted by Rob in Career Change, The New Luxuries

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The Hartford Courant published an article yesterday telling the stories of a number of middle-class workers who quit their day jobs to pursue their dream of doing truly soul-satisfying work.
Here is the text of the section of the article that quotes me:
“More people than you might think dream of leaving a sensible - but not [...]