Reasons to Work After Attaining Financial Independence

Browsing the Bogleheads forum, my eyes naturally gravitated to the thread titled “What is FI if you love your job?” The short answer is that FI is financial independence. 

I think everyone should try to work towards financial independence, regardless of their current contentedness.

Reasons to Work After Attaining Financial Independence

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If you truly love your job, and the knowledge that work has become optional hasn’t changed your mind, then by all means, don’t change a thing.

You Love Your Job

Maybe you don’t love your job, but you’re not ready and willing to go from working a demanding full-time job to having no job at all. 

Ease the Transition to Retirement

So you can easily afford to retire, and you have an inkling it would be good for you to step away, but you owe it to your patients to stick around. If you’re not there to care for them, who will step up to take your place? 

Your Patients Need You

If you’ve reached FI at a relatively young age, you’ve probably done so by serving a worthy purpose of some kind. At a minimum, your job was worthy of a high-income relative to your salary. 

Your Life Needs Purpose

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