December 2011 - Page 2 of 2 - The Outlier Model

Season of giving?

CF / December 12th, 2011 / No Comments

Brian and I recently attended the Pan Pacific Christmas Wish Breakfast here in Vancouver. It’s a yearly event in Vancouver and one that I have attended before. The idea is simple: You bring a new, unwrapped toy down to the hotel and you get to go have a free breakfast from their buffet afterwards. Yum! For our gifts, I purchased two new puzzles from the dollar store – one geared towards...

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Defining the greater goal

Find a Job You Love, career, opportunities,the greater goal, financial independence

Brian / December 5th, 2011 / 3 Comments

The news that early retirement/financial independence advocate Jacob Lund Fisker is retiring from retirement and going back to work has got me to thinking; what is the point of all this? In deciding to work towards early retirement, a major motivator was the freedom to do what I wanted, when I wanted to. To be free of the responsibility and obligation to show up at a certain place at a certain time...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: early retirement, Early Retirement Extreme, financial independence, Mr. Money Moustache, purpose, quant trading, The Simple Dollar