The Happy Philosopher - Semiretirement and Finding Happiness

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🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, Jeff from The Happy Philosopher joins me to discuss the unique challenges that doctors and other professionals face on the journey to early retirement.

When you invest so much time, money, and energy into your career, it’s no wonder that walking away from your job is much more difficult.

We discuss alternatives to early retirement, which provide a lot of the same benefits but limit the downsides, and we also dive into ways you can increase your happiness during your journey to FI!

Highlights:

The unique problems that doctors face when pursuing financial independence
How you can separate your identity from your job
Why you should focus on happiness instead of FI
The benefits of the best drug in the world
Why you should stop watching news (and stop worrying about things you can’t control)
What is a ‘job share’ and why it’s a great alternative to early retirement

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you with her finance.
0:05.0	Hey, welcome everybody to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the
0:09.5	brains of some of the best and brightest in the personal finance space to find out how they achieved financial independence.
0:14.0	On today's show, Jeff from the happy philosophers joining me, and I met Jeff back at the first camp mustache I attended.
0:20.4	We had some great chats there, and it was the first time I actually realized how unique the pursuit of Fai is for doctors and lawyers and anyone else who's invested a large amount of money and time into their careers.
0:33.1	I didn't really realize how much identity is tied up in those careers and obviously when you
0:39.2	make such a huge investment like that it's hard to just step away after you know less than a
0:43.5	decade of working so I was excited to get Jeff on because he's a practicing
0:48.4	radiologist and he's come up with the unique solution to this and it's sort of like a semi-retirement which seems to be working really well for him.
0:57.5	So I'm looking forward to diving into some of these unique challenges and some solutions to them.
1:01.8	So without further delay, Jeff, thanks for being here.
1:04.4	Brandon, thank you.
1:05.4	I'm delighted to be here, man.
1:06.9	Yeah, no.
1:07.5	So it's been a while since we last chatted, actually.
1:10.1	So we met back at Camp Mustache, which I believe was in May of 2015, is that right?
1:16.0	Was it 2015 or I think it was 2016?
1:21.0	Was it last year?
1:22.0	Yeah. Oh, last year? Yeah.
1:23.0	Oh right.
1:24.0	Geez, see, I don't even know anymore.
1:26.0	So yeah, man, when you retire, you get senile and the years just kind of float by.
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