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Financial Independence Retire Early

 
Have you ever heard about fuck you money? This clip below describes it pretty well.
 

Well it turns out that even though I have not reached financial independence yet, I consider myself wealthy enough to not put up with bullshit at my workplace when I don’t want to.
 
Long story short, I have a new job!
 
Pros

  • Same field of work but much less workload
  • Closer to home by about 40 minutes (big win)

Cons

  • About $12k less money
  • Risk not liking new environment

We went through a ‘restructure’ at work and I didn’t agree with about 90% of it. Management in a nut shell told the entire department that we will do as we are told and there’s nothing we can do about it… Annnnnnnd this is where that fuck you money comes into play.

 

I’m going from a tad over $100K to just under $90K which is still good money. I was shocked to hear though that many of my colleagues did not have the same luxury of taking a $10k pay cut because they had mortgages to pay with the repayments calculated on the maximum amount their salary would allow…
 
They were trapped in this high paying (by country standards) job that was trying to screw them over because they owed so much money to the banks. I loved my job for 5 years. The last 6 months stunk as I tried to get over the bad patch. But the restructure was the final straw. I’m not going to work somewhere that treats me like that and do a job I’m not going to enjoy.

 

I was very fortunate that a great opportunity aroused so I took it.
 
Moral of the story: don’t be a slave to debt!

 

Have enough fuck you money because you may like your job now, but if things change and they start trying to make you do stuff you don’t want to do… You can tell em ‘Fuck you!
fuckyou

Although I didn’t get a redundancy package. I was paid out on my annual leave and RDOs. I transfer my long service to my new job which was nice. I got screwed hard in tax but there was nothing I could do about it. I received a lump sum of around $14K after tax which was the big boost this month. I put the majority of that payout into ETFs.

 

I have actually been in my new job for a few weeks already and am loving the change.

 

It’s funny, everyone seems to think that it’s all about money when it comes to me because I’m a notorious tight ass. But it couldn’t be further from the truth. I value the freedom money can give you not the money itself. This job change is the perfect example. I gave up $12K salary to be more happy and knew that I was in a strong position to do so. How many people do you know would give up $12K because they weren’t happy with their job??? My journey towards FIRE is about escaping the 9-5 grind not about being the richest man in the graveyard.
 

Net Worth Update

 

My payout nearly all went into ETFs which put us up to about $64K worth of ETFs. Which isn’t bad considering we started to buy ETFs in October last year. We have said that we want to get to $100K worth of ETFs and then reassess what we are going to do from there. Will we continue to buy ETFs or go back to property…or maybe something else entirely? I have always wanted to have a crack at a business…we’ll see.

 

The other bump this month came from my Super being updated. We didn’t save that much money this month.

Properties

 

No change in any of the properties for this month.

*DISCLAIMER*
Various data sources (RP data, Domain.com etc.) are used in combination of what similar surrounding properties were sold for to calculate an estimate. This is an official Commonwealth bank estimate and one which they use to approve loans.

ETFs

ETFs were the main benificary of the payout with close about $16K going into VAS/VEU. Below is our allocations (hover over to see $$$ figures)

Networth

 

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