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Overcoming Blindness: Achieving Financial Independence With A Visual Impairment

33 Comments / Career & Employment, Health & Fitness, Insurance, Motivation / By Financial Samurai

One of my goals on Financial Samurai is to share different perspectives. Roughly 15% of the world’s population (1+ billion), lives with some form of disability, of whom 2-4% experience significant difficulties in functioning. This is the minority group I’m most passionate about fighting for in this extremely competitive world. My hope is that more […]

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The Average Hours Worked Per Week Explains Why It’s Easy To Get Ahead

51 Comments / Career & Employment / By Financial Samurai

One of my most reviled posts is called, Do People Really Only Work 40 Hours A Week Or Less And Complain Why They Can’t Get Ahead? The post paints me as an unsympathetic person full of tough love. “Thank you sir! May I have another!” I wrote the post back in 2011 when I was

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In Search Of The 2-Hour Work Day While Getting Paid Full-Time

47 Comments / Career & Employment / By Financial Samurai

I’ve made the case the best time to work may be during a pandemic. With fewer things to do, you might as well spend more time making more money. Further, if you are able to work from home, you could actually figure out a way to work less and still get paid in full! Since

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Are You A HENRY? High Earners, Not Rich Yet

97 Comments / Career & Employment, Retirement / By Financial Samurai

It occurred to me while writing my bestselling personal finance book, Buy This Not That, that a good percentage of you are HENRYs. A HENRY is a “high earner, not yet rich” consumer who is on the path to financial freedom. HENRYs mostly earn six-figure incomes who also save and invest aggressively. However, HENRYs often

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Why The Smartest Countries Are Not The Happiest

36 Comments / Career & Employment / By Financial Samurai

Being smart is generally a good thing. You can use your smarts to make more money and do more things with ease. However, what if you live in one of the smartest countries in the world. Can your smartness shine through when many of your peers are equally as intelligent? Or what if you live

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Investment Returns Versus Active Income: When Work No Longer Matters

98 Comments / Career & Employment, Investments / By Financial Samurai

At some stage in your investing journey, you may experience a situation where your investment returns surpass your active income (non-investment income, job income). The first time this happens, you may feel excited as you imagine the possibilities. But you likely won’t quit your job just in case it was a fluke. However, after several

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Ask People What They Do, They Might Surprise You

44 Comments / Career & Employment, Relationships / By Financial Samurai

When you’re working, one of the most common questions to ask new people you meet is what they do. Before the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, I happily said I worked in banking. A big part of my identity was where I worked for 60+ hours a week. After leaving finance in 2012, I noticed

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The Best Time To Work May Be During Or After A Pandemic

56 Comments / Career & Employment / By Financial Samurai

Although there is a growing apathy towards work given some people’s investment returns are beating their work income, the best time to work might be during or right after a pandemic. The way millions now work is much more flexible, which is much better. One of the biggest things I disliked about work was having

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A Pathetic Sabbatical: Workaholism Is Difficult To Overcome

28 Comments / Career & Employment, Motivation / By Financial Samurai

And just like that, my two-month sabbatical is over. Did you miss me? Of course not! I continued to publish three posts a week and send out one newsletter a week like an addict. There was only a one-week period where I felt like I truly took things down a notch. Our family went up

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Preparing For A Sabbatical: What To Do While On Break From Work

22 Comments / Career & Employment / By Financial Samurai

One of my biggest regrets while working was not taking a sabbatical. If I had taken a one-to-three-month sabbatical, I probably wouldn’t have left finance at age 34. Instead, I probably could have kept grinding until age 40 and made a lot more money. Alas, I was too afraid to take a sabbatical because nobody

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