IFB31: Millionaire Jobs: Interview with the Engineer Who Did it in 10 Years

Alright, folks well welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast I’m David Ahern, and we have Andrew Sather with us tonight we’re going to do a little something different off our normal beaten path.
We’re going to interview someone tonight; we have a guest with us tonight who has found success with finding freedom from money, and his name is Justin.

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* Being frugal and enjoying the simple things can lead to lifelong happiness

We’re just going to go ahead and chat a little bit so without any further ado Justin could you give us a brief synopsis of your life up to this point tell us how you got where you are.
Justin: Yeah, sure thing, so I’m Justin I retired at 33 four years ago almost to the day. I used to work as an engineer here in Raleigh North Carolina about ten years right out of college. Started working and you know to save my money invested it bought a pretty basic house here in Raleigh and just did not upgrade the house didn’t upgrade the cars until after I retired. I married my wife is also retired now she just she retired in her 30s, and she’s just crossed another big milestone birthday. So I’m not going to say how old she is but probably best yeah she might if she listens to this but she probably will she’ll probably do some, so she’s 29 again. We also have three children age in12 and five, and as a few days from now, they will get all three in school all day, so it’s a big transition period for us to have some free time during the school week and yeah that’s that’s pretty much you know me in a nutshell.
Andrew: nice I love it. I’d like what your typical day sounds like because I a lot of us who are listening to the podcast. We see financial freedom as kind of the ultimate goal and that all mean different things, for different people. You know what’s there’s a lot of work a lot of discipline and a lot of saving and investing. And so you know why should we go through all that and what kind of things can we look forward to if we do finally achieve financial freedom.
Justin: yeah sure I guess the at the big picture level there’s sort of a bipolar lifestyle I’m living during the school year when our kids are in school from roughly September through the end of May early June about nine months per year they’re in school. And, so we’re here in Raleigh NorthCarolina I’ve taken an easy kind of slow pace of life lots of relaxation. Simple stuff around town and then the another part of our lifestyle personality is a big summer trip.
We’ll go somewhere big for the summer this year we went to Europe for nine weeks. in the past, we’ve gone to Mexico for seven weeks a road trip across the US and Canada for three weeks three and a half weeks. We did that kind of trip twice in the past few years, so you know summertime big trip.
School year more laid-back local stuff around town on a daily basis it varies every single day between I might have some volunteer stuff at one of their school’s other stuff in the community. I have to go on you know going out for a walk going out for a hike around here somewhere in a nearby park walking down to the grocery store. You know getting coffee with a friend or somebody new that I’ve met hanging out people on the weekends having dinner parties over here having people over for you know pizza and beer kind of stuff.
I enjoy video games, and Netflix is another pastime of mine. I also enjoy my hammock with a goodbook, it really depends today we spent several hours at a Children’s Museum in the mi...