Tony - Going Back to Work After Early Retirement
Financial Independence Podcast
The Mad Fientist
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s easy to think that early retirement will be the answer to all your problems.
After all, how could you not be happy when you don’t have to work anymore?
I’ve written about why early retirement is not a magic bullet but what if it actually makes your life worse?
On today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I interview a reader named Tony who found this to be the case.
He’s since decided to go back to the same career he retired from and is enjoying work (and life) more than ever.
During the interview, we dive into the overlooked benefits of work and the downsides of early retirement.
We also explore serious issues that aren’t talked about enough, like depression and mental health.
Huge thank you to Tony for sharing his deeply personal story with us.
Highlights:
- The benefits of having a job that are hard to find elsewhere
- Why early retirement won’t magically fix all your problems
- The importance of building human contact into your early retirement plan
- The dark side of having a driving passion and purpose
- Signs that you need to seek help for your mental health problems
- What it’s like going back to work after early retirement
- The Office Space Effect and how FI can make you a better (and happier) employee
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm blinding you in true. |
| 0:04.0 | I am. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey what's up everybody. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the best and brightest in personal finance to find out how they achieved financial independence. |
| 0:15.0 | On today's show, I'm excited to talk to my buddy Tony, who I met at a camp mustache a few years ago. |
| 0:21.0 | After the camp finished, we became friends on Facebook and I noticed at some point last year |
| 0:25.8 | that he was posting about getting a new job and that surprised me because he achieved financial independence. |
| 0:31.3 | He retired early and yet here he was looking to get back into the same career that he left. |
| 0:36.5 | So I reached out to him to see what was going on and we chatted about it a little bit and I realized this his story was one that definitely needed to be told and it's a very personal one |
| 0:48.0 | so I really appreciate that he decided to share it with everyone because it's hard to talk about some of these |
| 0:53.4 | things and we dive into things like depression and mental illness and other problems |
| 0:59.2 | that you think that financial independence could solve but in a lot of cases it won't. |
| 1:04.6 | So as this whole financial independence thing gets more mainstream and there's more fire cheerleaders |
| 1:08.8 | out there saying this is the best thing ever, it's going to fix everything, it's the answer |
| 1:12.2 | all your problems |
| 1:13.2 | just do some soul searching listen to this episode learn from Tony's |
| 1:17.4 | experiences and hopefully have a much, |
| 1:24.4 | and enjoyable, fun journey to financial independence and beyond. |
| 1:25.6 | So without further delay, thank you so much Tony, I really appreciate you being here. |
| 1:30.1 | Brandon, it's so good to be here. |
| 1:31.8 | I'm honored and kind of, you know, feel like I don't deserve to be here, but I'm really glad to be here talking to you. |
| 1:39.0 | I know you definitely deserve it. You have an incredibly interesting and up and down story that I'm excited to get into. |
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