I entered the corporate world 20 years ago. I went from carefree university student with zero responsibilities to a cog in the rat race. Wake up at 7 am. Get to work by 8 am. And leave work at 7-8 pm. Six days a week and sometimes work on Sundays. A couple of weeks into corporate life I knew I couldn’t do this forever, at least fondly. I didn’t want to get stuck. Stuck on the hedonic treadmill of lifestyle creep. I could picture it in my head. If I got stuck in lifestyle creep I visualized being the overweight man in the red convertible in 20 years. Unhappy, unhealthy, and stuck with a large mortgage. To prevent this from happening I tried to make plans plenty of times. It would be called “Freedom 30” later “Freedom 40” and now “Freedom 40”. The goal was to have enough money saved up by the time we were 30-40 to ditch the traditional work lifestyle for good. A short five-year plan that would essentially buy us back our freedom. Anyone who follows me knows that I describe myself as a "postmodern slave" for a long time. I could not get into our Freedom 30 and 40 plans due to a lot of excuses. I am still in the rat race. I am projecting that I will overshoot our target by 2025 if it goes like this
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