#EscapingWork #Freedom #DreamJob #SelfEmployed
Hey everyone! So many of us talk about wanting to escape the 9-5 grind and live a life where we don’t have to work. 🙅♂️ But for those who have actually achieved that, I want to hear from you! What do you do now that you’ve created that freedom for yourself? And most importantly, how did you do it? 🤔
Let’s share some inspiration and hope with those who are still waiting to break free from the traditional work structure. Here are some possible solutions to consider:
– Pursuing your passion and turning it into a successful career
– Starting your own business or going freelance
– Embracing a minimalist lifestyle to reduce financial burdens
– Investing wisely to generate passive income streams
Share your success stories and tips with us! Let’s help each other find our path to true freedom. 💪 #Inspiration #SuccessStories #EscapeThe9to5
Having a chronic condition in a civilized country where you’re taken care of and don’t have to die because your shitty medical insurance is tied to having a job.
everyday im closer to making a niche OF
Joined the military out of highschool. Retired at 35.
I work as an independent contractor in urban planning. If you are good with writing graphic design and computers you can make good money if you can find planners that need help
Streaming, Donating plasma, finding items for cheap and flipping them for a profit usually.
You be surprised how many Retro Games can pop up for cheap but suddenly blow up in demand. Like Pokemon, etc.
I’m trying to get out of customer service jobs, and i think that will do the trick. Just had an interview today somewhere, and it went really well i thought, so we will see. I would be a delivery driver bring radioactive medicine to hospitals, and it looks like moving up from there would be doable. Never really wanted to move up at these others, as being a manager of a gas station sounds like hell.
To be clear: We do not want to work for other people that will work you to death.
A 30hr work week (or less) for yourself is much more rewarding. You are responsible for all mistakes and get 100% of all rewards. You can take any day off.
I have 4 or 5 different things I do. (I don’t want to go into detail today)
The main way to success is: that you are often doing things for future years. Example: Pay off your mortgage and you just gave your future self more money. Buy some dividend stocks and you gave your future self more money.
Automate something you already do (Excell sheet, machinery, robot, etc) and you gave your future self more time or money.
Run a side gig until it pays better than your job. Don’t be afraid to fail. I must have at least 4 side jobs that did not work out. But you learn new skills from everything you do and they help you to succeed later.
I was fortunate enough to go to college & do really well there. So with that privilege in mind:
When I got out of college and into workforce, I immediately started saving & investing 50% of my net income from day 1. I got used to life on that, so I never really missed the lost spending.
I lived with roommates, and I’ve developed really cheap hobbies as a result. But I don’t feel constrained because a lot of my pursuits are self improvement oriented – boxing, reading, programming, (video games), piano.
The other thing that enabled this is that I chose not to start a family or have kids. Life would look very different if I had, and i’d have to put a lot more effort into work.
I am working at the moment, but just to top off the kids college fund. I don’t have to. I worked hard and smart, lived below my means, and I was able to save enough to retire. I am 47 now.
I married my sugar momma who loves to work and is bringing in the bacon. I also work 2 jobs but my full time job is about 20 hours (paid salary for 40 hours but not well lol) start sunrise and get done by 9. 2nd job work 4 days 5pm-10pm at a stress free kitchen job where I maybe cook 7 tickets on a busy day
I’m a network engineer and I enjoy my job. It’s pretty laid back, I pretty much self manage (I have a to-do list but I can choose when I want to do the tasks, so I can work from home when I want or I can go rack up some gear if I feel like getting dressed), and my boss is super laid back and fair.
I also day trade, and that’s my main source of income. I don’t spend any of my gains though, I just keep rolling them into an early retirement fund. I’m on track to retire pretty comfortably in about 5-6 years, around age 40, and around the time my daughter finishes high school.
I plan to travel with my wife for a while, then settle down again and enjoy my hobbies.
Got lucky on some investments. Not so much that I never have to work again, but enough that I can keep work pretty low key and on my own terms. Currently working towards moving down from 4 days a week to 3.
My health is fucked but I live in a country with a social safety net.
I want to work. Don’t have the energy to do so.
As soon as my health is unfucked again I will try and get some volunteer work, or do a training course to get something back on my CV after a six year gap.
I think my local hospital is always looking for volunteers to help people find their way around, signpost them to services they need after treatment, etc. I’d like to do that. They’ve helped me a lot when I’ve been in hospital.
Married rich
I found it by accident or misfortune depending on how one wants to look at it. I have 3 chronic health conditions and complicated treatments as a result. I have so far NOT been approved for disability. It’s a continual fight. I know it would ease my spouses mental load if I could get approved for Medicaid in case of their demise. The process of getting approved for it has been in my experience a dehumanizing and awful experience.
My spouse is forced to work a job where they are essentially on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week 12 months of the year. I hate this for them. They do not receive holiday pay of any kind-you work Thanksgiving you get paid normal. AND you will be penalized by losing extra ‘points’ if you take a holiday off. So partner works outside the home a ton and I am left at home to do what I can.
I love the freedom to spend maximum time with our pets and be an available to spend time with my spouse when they are home whether that’s 4 am or 4pm. On the other hand I hate that I don’t have an income and can’t contribute. I hate that my partner has to work upwards of 300 hours a month to support our family. I see the toll it takes on them. I feel guilt every single
Day of my life.
On the other hand I sleep when I need , want or can. I have ample time with our pets. I garden because gardening at 3 am is a thing n my house and I have very empathetic children who I am so proud of. I do not like how my life has turned out but I really can’t complain about it.
I (45) now work as a beekeeper. Had been doing it as a hobby for 10 years and am now considered a sideliner.
It still is a hobby for me where I have classes and do talks, but technically I have enough hives to be considered mid sized.
I started investing in stocks when I was 12. Went to college and became an engineer where it accelerated my investments. Wife is an engineer who is now in management. She used to be a spender and I converted her to save and budget. House is paid off, stayed out of debt, have enough to live til 125 or so, but I won’t likely see 95. Wife likes work so she still does, which makes healthcare affordable.
My advice is to start saving when you can. It doesn’t have to be a to. If you work at a company, use the company matching. Don’t try to time the market unless you are a day trader. General ETF or mutual funds are probably easiest.
I’m a housewife
I retired 3 years ago at 55 and now enjoy my defined benefit CPI indexed pension.
My after tax income last pay finally exceeded my after tax income when working.
Life is good.
Yes, I know I’m lucky – I also know that I put the most I could into my pension fund when working so that I’d be able to enjoy a comfortable retirement – unlike many of my co-workers.
I couldn’t work anymore. CPTSD. Impossible. Turns out I’ll be able to collect social security in a few months. Good timing
Not me but I dealt with a FSE a couple of years back who works fully remotely. He had been at his Spanish holiday villa since the start of the pandemic, and gets paid £8000+ per year from each customer for basically answering his phone occasionally.
If you actually want this bloke to physically visit the site and wave a spanner at something, it’s easily five figures ( he charges £105/hr just for travelling).
My previous employer hired a consultant to advise on future strategy/ business direction. No-one I knew there met the guy and I am fairly certain he never even came on-site. He invoiced and was paid just under £25,000.
I pack adult play dough into presents for obedient Russians. At various times since I said “Fuck corporations, fuck everything,” I have trained people on how to use Catastrophic Landscaping Tools to make Obedient Russians go away, made Bad Idea Devices from scrap and adult play dough, catastrophically landscaped portions of East Ukraine in the furthering of making Obedient Russians go away, and helped advise and teach people on how to teach and train people to use Catastrophic Landscaping Tools.
It’s not that I don’t want to work. It’s that I want my labor to be in the effort of something worthwhile. Such as the Sovereignty of Ukraine. Or taxing the rich.
It’s work but stripping haha. It’s on my own terms and the schedule is flexible, no limit to what a really good week could be. Half the time I feel like I get paid just for showing up. I got an anti work mentality very young. The thought of working full time to never get ahead seemed ass backward to me and I don’t believe it’s what we as humans are meant to do. This was even when life was still affordable haha…. I totally support younger generations walking away from the corporate meat grinder. I started at 22 and am now 34. I did the military thing for an enlistment in between those years and now I have the VA benefits and healthcare. Went right back to stripping after I got out, it’s been great and it’s actually becoming realistic to fund starting my own business.
I have gone past I don’t want to work. So I keep working. tHe GrInD nEvEr EnDs *despair*
I work 10-15 monday to friday. And and even if it was a shitty job, that it isn’t I wouldn’t get burnout since it gives me a lot of free time to spare.
Money is not good but not bad, I can afford saving every month
Invest and don’t give up – ever
I still have to work but I currently work 10 hour shifts in IT 4 days a week, starting on Saturday. I can’t go back to normal 5 days now, the extra day is so valuable. 10 hour days are rough, but I only need to really try for two days a week, Saturday and Sunday are super slow so I end up using that as extra me time. Plus working from home lets me help around the house a lot more.
turns out being mildly autistic in the railroad capital of the US makes it easy to find a job you enjoy.
More so freelance, but I co-manage a sports website, signed a contract to write 30-40 articles a month. We take care of the content, share it on our social pages, work the writers who need improvement and hiring some along the way.
Edit: I been with the website since 2020. Quit my retail job in January thanks to an inconsistent manager and turned to freelance. I’m glad to have made that decision
Pull weeds in the garden in the morning, smoke weed in the afternoon. TV. Video games. Errands. It’s like being a healthy 80year old.
I built my own stock portfolio. I pay a guy to manage half my investments at 1.5% of profits, and I manage the other half by looking at news sources all day to see what’s lucrative in the markets. Nvda and doge are my golden eggs! 🙂