Ex-Software Engineer Reveals Dark Truth Behind “Never Turning Off” | Retirement Reality
Early Retirement - Financial Freedom (Investing, Tax Planning, Retirement Strategy, Personal Finance)
Ari Taublieb, CFP®, MBA
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's one thing to hear about early retirement from me who loves talking about how to retire early with confidence, which if you know me, I don't really want you to retire early if you love your job. |
| 0:10.4 | I just want you to know when are you in a position to make work optional. |
| 0:13.3 | And if you love what you do, keep doing. |
| 0:14.9 | And if you don't love what you do, go spend your time on what matters most because I hate the thought of you working unnecessarily. |
| 0:21.6 | If you don't need to be working because financially you're in a great spot, I want you to know that. |
| 0:26.3 | And at the minimum, I want you to know when that will be the case. |
| 0:29.3 | When do you enter that recreational employment? |
| 0:32.3 | Now, the best way to learn, in my opinion, is from people who have already done it. |
| 0:36.8 | So what I'm going to be doing is still continuing my interviews because you guys have |
| 0:42.3 | shared amazing feedback with me via email. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm just going to read out one of the recent responses and this, I'm going to keep anonymous |
| 0:48.9 | of course. |
| 0:49.5 | So if you want to email me what you have found most helpful, please do. |
| 0:53.2 | It is so fun for me to get to read |
| 0:54.6 | your responses. You can email me at ari at rootfinancial.com. And this is a response that says |
| 1:00.0 | these interviews have changed the way I look at an early retirement. It's fun to hear about these |
| 1:04.8 | different concepts, but when I see them applied in real life and I can hear the joy and freedom |
| 1:09.7 | in their voice, It just hits different. |
| 1:12.2 | So that is a great example of why I love getting to hold these interviews. So I'm going to continue |
| 1:17.4 | to play these interviews. These are all live right now on YouTube. So if you prefer to listen on |
| 1:23.1 | YouTube for any reason, I know many of you who listen here on the podcast go, yeah, YouTube is not my thing, |
| 1:28.5 | too many ads, it's just annoying. Totally get that. I listen to many history podcasts on my podcast out, |
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