When I first discovered FIRE at 47, I couldn’t find anyone in a similar situation – I admit my Googling skills were very poor but it seemed that everyone was way ahead of me. And people were retiring early in their 30s and 40s and here I was – just learning about FIRE at nearly 50!
Since then, I have discovered a whole community of late starters and convinced some of them to share their stories in my Late Starter to FI Series.
Have you wondered what is happening in their lives? Are their plans working out? How are they coping with setbacks and road bumps along the FI path?
Our late starters are living their lives and fine tuning their financial decisions all the time. As our community continues to grow, we’ve reached milestones, started side hustles, retired, made a decision to quit our jobs and so on.
So this newsletter is to keep you up to date! We’ll share our progress as well as any major or minor milestones achieved along the way.
It can be a hard slog in the middle of the journey, where we are in the weeds, trying to save and invest our way to achieving our dream of Financial Independence and Retiring Early(ish) or Eventually 🙂
I sincerely hope sharing our progress along the way will motivate all of us to continue on our path.
Please join in the conversation in the comments below. If you would like to share your late starter story, please contact me – info at latestarterfire dot com or DM me on Twitter (@latestarterfire)
Fantastic to see how far everyone has come and is going.
I’m rooting for the law of (non) diminishing returns AKA the snowball effect to get us all collectively where we aim to be, as well as enjoying what we do and who we do it with.
Thanks for bringing us all together !
Shaun
So much progress in this group! Love the update series and can’t wait until everyone reaches their goals.
It’s great to be part of this group and easily the biggest benefit I’ve had since starting my blog.
Tracking our progress and overcoming the challenges is very encouraging.
The best part is seeing some of us actually making it. Well done Ed.