Financial Freedom & Wellbeing: How Stress Management Paves the Way
Embarking on Entrepreneurship on the Road to Financial Independence I’m pleased to present a new interview from my series ‘Health on the Way to FI.’ Today, I’m sharing the inspiring story of Marie-Josée Simard, a trained nurse with over 30 years of experience in healthcare, who has held various management positions. Marie-Josée decided to change […]
Lessons from my first year of semi-retirement
I feel so privileged to bring you a post to detail out the lessons from my first year of semi-retirement. To be in this position at 34 is something difficult to put into words. While I originally left my 9 to 5 public service job for a sabbatical back in January 2021, considering the need […]
How to Negotiate a Remote Work Agreement
While the pandemic is far from over, with vaccination rates increasing in a very hopeful way, some employers have started to communicate their desire for their employees to return to work in the office. Perhaps you are dreading this change. You’ve found yourself enjoying remote work through the last year and actually performing better in […]
Questions to focus on enjoying the journey to Financial Independence
One of the main reasons I maintain this blog is to make sure I explore and document all my attempts to continue enjoying the journey on our path towards financial independence. I do not want to dedicate those years to solely focus on finding happiness once we would be able to quit our jobs, I […]
Changes Ahead at Work
I received the news this week that a big change was imminent in my work organization: my current manager will be moving to another role. I’m normally not that worried about changes happening at work yet this one is different. During these last few years on our journey to reach financial independence, I’ve been focusing […]
Know your optimal working conditions
In my quest to increase my happiness at work, I’ve realized that an important component of becoming better at my job is dependent on my working conditions. The main way for me to have some control and influence over these conditions is to develop skills to communicate my value and needs efficiently to my employer. […]
The FIRE Drill Podcast Interview
That’s right, you will get to listen to me talk this week in a new episode on one of my favorite podcasts: FIRE Drill Podcast with J from Millennial Boss. I was pretty nervous about this. Nervous enough to postpone my interview several months after having been invited. Part of the reason to delay was […]
How I Negotiated a Working from Home Position
In July 2018, I sat down with my manager to make a request that was rather rare in my organisation, I wanted to become a full time remote employee. I’d already been teleworking once or twice per week for the last 4 years or so, however a few different changes had made me long for […]
Optimizing the training and courses offered by your employer
Within the last two years, I’ve taken various steps to increase my happiness at work. One first measure I put in place to increase my satisfaction in my work days has been to make the conscious choice to be more engaged in the way I select courses and training through my employer. Rather than simply […]
Increasing our Happiness at Work
I often suffer from the Sunday blues, that moment where, after a lovely weekend spent doing fulfilling and relaxing activities, the reality of the painful return to the 9 to 5 grind starts to settle in my thoughts. In an attempt to eliminate, or at least minimize my Sunday blues, I decided in the last […]
