Category Archives: Career

    I guess I should’ve seen this coming. I’ve blogged about financial independence and using your military benefits and coping with drawdowns… and suddenly some of you are wondering exactly how to go about getting a bridge career. If … Continue reading →

Long post today: I have 2400 words of real-life examples for a reader’s question. When I started thinking about a book, I wasn’t writing “just another job-search manual“. I wanted to talk about early retirement and frankly, I was scared … Continue reading →

Fair warning: this is a long post, even by my standards. Hey, it’s Thursday, it’s a holiday weekend, and (for a change) it’s not financial. There’s not even any math. But let’s get to the post. Ironically for being one … Continue reading →

A reader posted some great questions the other day: What do you think is going to happen with the “retired benefit” debate within the greater context of the DoD portion of the Federal Budget? Will it be another … slash … Continue reading →

(The first part of this post is over at Jacob Lund Fisker’s Early Retirement Extreme blog.) Now for the rest of the story… When I was an impressionable young teen, my best friend’s older brother was attending USNA. Every time … Continue reading →