Financial Freedom for Generation X

Today, I’d like to review a couple more financial freedom books. Today’s selections were written by a couple of my cohorts in Generation X, a generation loosely defined as being born between the early 1960s and early 1980s.

We Gen Xers are now in our late 30s to late 50s. We’ve done some living. We’ve experienced career highs and career lows. Our lives probably haven’t gone quite the way we anticipated, which may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Financial Freedom for Generation X

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I think the Gen X perspective is inherently going to involve more introspection and looking back on where one has been. 

Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny Pinching Way

It’s exciting to look ahead, particularly when contemplating what financial independence can mean for your future, but it’s important to also process what your life has looked like up to this point and how you and your life are going to have to change to accomplish your goals.

Rather than prescribe the ideal life to you, Ms. Hester helps you formulate the concoction on your own, offering guidance as to what tinctures and adventures you might want to blend in.

Work Optional: The Good

When I read a book for review, I fill it with those little plastic stickies. Some of them say “Sign Here” — I believe in reusing plastic when possible — and all of them point to something that stood out to me as worth revisiting.

Tidbits from Work Optional

Let’s revisit some of the high points. 1. Can’t Knock the Hustle? 2. The FI Community 3. On getting your partner on the same page 4. On kids

Tidbits from Work Optional

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