What is better than having a long weekend off from work?
Having every weekend as a long weekend off from work!
Imagine having a 3 day weekend, or maybe even a 4 day weekend every week, not just when we have the occasional bank holiday here in the UK (or a public holiday elsewhere in the world).
An extra day to do as you please. Get all the chores out the way so you can relax and do fun stuff on the other 2 days. More quality time with family and friends, more adventures with your pet dog or more hours to work out or chill out, whatever floats you boat, your free time is yours!
Well, that is the idea of semi FIRE. Why do we have to follow the norm and work 5 days a week until retirement at some long distant date in the future, by which time we probably aren’t at our most healthy and active to enjoy all the free time.
Why can’t we do things a bit differently and on our own terms? Well you can!
Many work places will now try to accommodate more flexible working patterns so dropping a day a week in most industries shouldn’t be too hard. I think the number one reason most people don’t do this is the money.
So to do this we need to be able to take a drop in income. And that is why we are doing all the ground work on this blog so we can provide ourselves an additional income stream to make up for the reduced hours and reduced salary. This includes steps such as building your emergency fund, starting to invest and then growing your freedom fund. None of it is hard to do but also not necessarily easy! There have to be sacrifices along the way, things we may do without, budgets to follow. But building up your vision of your long weekends, more time spent with people and pets you love, more fun and time to relax on your terms will hopefully help you stay on the semi FIRE path and realise what you are doing it all for.
Semi-Retire FIRE 