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My Shite FI so far

Hiya,

Don’t know what you’ve been Googling to get into the dregs of the internet at this time of day, but whilst you’re here I might as well introduce myself. 

I’m a pretty bang average bloke in his (very) late 20s from the UK. I wasn’t the greatest with my financial journey in life in my teens and early twenties, but I’m still narcissistic enough to write a blog about my journey towards financial independence and see how it pans out, and see what curveballs come into play which may make me even want to get away from this journey. Fat FIRE, Lean FIRE, Coast FIRE, Barista Fire (shout out Jack): Not a clue if/which one yet. The possibilities are endless! 

FI/RE (IYKYK), or if you don’t, stands for Financial Independence Retire Early. Does what is says on the tin. My aim is to do this via investing in shares and building a portfolio to live off, mainly because I’m very lazy and it’s an easy platform to invest in. 

That easy, not quite. Problem is along with the bad start so far, I don’t earn anywhere near the £100k salaries that a large proportion of the FIRE reddit communities earn, so there will be some sacrifices among the way, and I’ll need the ability to keep my nerve to keep investing when, let’s say, some dictator decides they’re god and want to redraw the world map and bring in all sorts of uncertainty and shrinks the portfolio smaller than my dick in freezing water. No not Nicola Sturgeon. 

Even a snail will reach its destination eventually. Can I join in its footsteps. Probably not but let’s see :) 

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