Hey, Kevin, it's Tottis.

Hi, Tottis.

Hey, I'm on the line with Kevin who blogs at Fervyn Finances, and is the co-host of the Reversion

to the Mean Podcast with my buddy Justin Kostelli.

I asked Kevin on to talk about a recent post of his entitled,

It's OK to like your paycheck. So much of what we see online is the celebration of the extraordinary

or the unusual post. of the

celebration of the extraordinary or the unusual posts about people retiring from the workforce

that the age of 30 people working remotely from faraway beaches

and maybe most commonly we get stories about entrepreneurs and

startup founders who have had success or have had an IPO.

So I thought Kevin's post was kind of a nice antidote to that and that you know that's certainly

Not the experience of most people so Kevin what kind of prompt you do to write this post? Yeah, I think being involved in the financial

Twitter community can lead some people to develop a little bit of envy when you

know we're talking with CEOs and founders of companies who have taken on risks and as a result

have become very successful. And if you take a step back I think you'll realize that a lot of that is survivorship bias so you see the

successes on Twitter the people who are succeeding if you started a business and

failed it's a lot harder to come out and say you know I took this route it didn't work out for me and

I took this route, it didn't work out for me.

I have to go try something else now.

So I think it just kind of was a realization for me that this doesn't always,

you know, entrepreneurship doesn't always work out for everyone and it's not all it's always you know cracked up to be all the time I know it can you know give people some financial freedom some time freedom and be able to dive

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