work-life balance

Golden Handcuffs: The Prison I Feel at Home In

Am I feeling at home in prison? Are golden handcuffs keeping me there?

Moving from doing to being in semi-retirement. Choosing to ask myself how do I want to feel today?

A sea-change lifestyle, Coast FI to retire at 52, and semi-retirement: the milestones on my financial independence journey so far.

Moving from sole trader to employee sounds like a pay cut. For me, it more than doubled my income.

Twelve days of work, eighteen days of freedom, this is what semi-retirement looks like for me. A rhythm of earning, living and being.

I dreamt of being a neurosurgeon. I became a semi-retired GP living by the sea instead.

Sometimes growth means walking away. When a pay negotiation failed, I walked and it led to an offer 1.3 times higher.

Twenty years in Australia. Over a year since my last post. A reminder of how fast time really moves.

In 2016 I realised my time wasn’t my own, so I stepped off the fast track to choose freedom. The turning point toward financial independence.