FIRE
Way to be free from the life of arduous work
I have a penchant for Fire, Financial Independence Retire Early. This is a widespread fad in Korea while getting rich by work has turned out to be a fabrication. Many people are seeking a haven of investing to supplant their scanty income and maybe that’s the reason for a recent spike in personal debt of Korea as it’s presented in the news. I’m also an exponent of FIRE, having a dream of retirement in 40s. I spend at least 1hr a day to study investing to ameliorate my financial status which will lead me to financial freedom enough to retire.
The idea of FIRE hadn’t speak to me until I actually experienced a life of a salary worker. Only after I was inflicted a myriad of affliction at work, I became an ardent devotee of FIRE. While the experienced often advise us to try our best at workplace, I would like to refute them saying that what I’ve discovered from people who have devoted their life to work is being left with nothing but still arduous life caused by the persisting money problem. Moreover, at times we should get away with the situation when all the things I’ve worked around a clock on coming to naught as company decides to do so.
I weighed working my ass off only for a short time and enjoy the rest of my life of leisure against maintaining a mediocre life of a faithful salary worker. You already know, it’s a nonsense even comparing those two. How on earth can a person want a life of a constant tedious work? I’m not. I want something different that I can bask in the bounty of life, not an indifferent outcome. To get it, I won’t take the chance of getting rich. Whether I could go very far in life or not would be determined by the amount of time and sweat I put into my goal. Though I may not get the result I’ve dreamed in a bad case scenario, at least it won’t do me a disservice.
While not bringing down my position in the company, I will find a way to be firmly in control of my finance. It could put me in the state of getting stranded at home being busy juggling those two. But I’m ready. I wanna know how far I can go by myself.
