Investor insight please.

[willfrye027]

Update. I've been off work for 18 days so far. 8 of those days off were totally unnecessary. I'm just doing it to see how it goes. So far I haven't spoken to single person from work lol.

It's actually pretty hard mentally, to burn vacation or not make money when I don't really have a reason to. But it's been pretty cool just hanging out with my wife, drinking coffee as the sun comes up, doing house stuff I've been putting off, cleaning up hunting stuff and getting ready for the next hunts.

I don't miss work whatsoever. It never even crosses my mind haha.

It turns out, actually spend way less money during hunting season, than in preparation for hunting season also. I'm just coasting financially with not many high dollar purchases.

I’ve got 25 days off coming up and I’m hoping to spend about half of that hunting and the other half chilling with the family. Hard for me to go more than about 10 days hunting without starting to feel a bit burnt out

 

[huntnful]

I’ve got 25 days off coming up and I’m hoping to spend about half of that hunting and the other half chilling with the family. Hard for me to go more than about 10 days hunting without starting to feel a bit burnt out

Oh absolutely. 10 days is plenty long for me as well. I normally plan 7 full hunt days, with one travel day on each end. That’s been pretty good for me personally.

 

[willfrye027]

Oh absolutely. 10 days is plenty long for me as well. I normally plan 7 full hunt days, with one travel day on each end. That’s been pretty good for me personally.

I don’t mind a little longer than a week but I usually plan a “sleep in” day in the mix unless the hunting is really good

 

[huntnful]

Update. I just finished my 67 day hiatus from work. It was awesome. I got to be along for 12 animals, taken across 5 states. Probably only 50 of those days were actually hunting and the rest were just chilling at home, or doing things with my wife and kids. I didn’t think about work for 1 second hahaha. Might try to make it an annual thing. Anyways, I’m glad I asked and glad I stuck to it. I’m poor now, but that’s okay hahaha. Freezers are full .

 

[HuntHarder]

Your trade, like mine, dangles that carrot endlessly. I used to chase it and make a ton of money, now I still try and catch it often, but realize that time away and/or with family, is much more important at this stage of my life. I set myself up so I don't always HAVE to be working. I gotta say tho, those checks after working crazy hours for 2 weeks are a little addicting.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Update. I just finished my 67 day hiatus from work. It was awesome. I got to be along for 12 animals, taken across 5 states. Probably only 50 of those days were actually hunting and the rest were just chilling at home, or doing things with my wife and kids. I didn’t think about work for 1 second hahaha. Might try to make it an annual thing. Anyways, I’m glad I asked and glad I stuck to it. I’m poor now, but that’s okay hahaha. Freezers are full .

You ain’t done yet

 

[huntnful]

You ain’t done yet

That’s right . But I couldn’t take the two weeks off work in between lol.

Your trade, like mine, dangles that carrot endlessly. I used to chase it and make a ton of money, now I still try and catch it often, but realize that time away and/or with family, is much more important at this stage of my life. I set myself up so I don't always HAVE to be working. I gotta say tho, those checks after working crazy hours for 2 weeks are a little addicting.

Oh that’s for sure! I get after the work pretty good in the summer. But that’s about it now lol

 

[CorbLand]

Work to live not live to work.

Just looked at my leave for work. Gotta use it before the end of the year. Pretty solid chance I only have about 5 days of actual work between now and the first of the year.

 

[MountainTracker]

Work to live not live to work.

Just looked at my leave for work. Gotta use it before the end of the year. Pretty solid chance I only have about 5 days of actual work between now and the first of the year.

I’m pretty much in the same boat. Boss keeps saying “you’re going to be gone all Dec”. I say yep!


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[CorbLand]

I’m pretty much in the same boat. Boss keeps saying “you’re going to be gone all Dec”. I say yep!


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Not my fault they make it use or lose.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Not my fault they make it use or lose.

Same for us. No banking it. Even though I technically get “unlimited vacation” it turns out I’m only actually banking 10 weeks per year in the HR system (I realize saying “only 10 weeks” sounds douchey to lots of folks).

 

[arrow179]

Love the discussion on this topic. Everyone owes it to themselves and their future to ask these questions. Everyone has different goals as well as risk tolerances when it comes to investing.

My the best advice I ever got was: YOU are the investor and don’t rely on anyone else to TELL you what to invest in. Spend some valuable time understanding what you are investing in. IF YOU don’t understand it then you shouldn’t invest in it.

That being said what has worked for me has been real estate (mainly farmland) as I grew up on a row-crop farm in IL. Bought my first farm when I was 22 and sold it to buy the next one with a 1031 exchange. I have since rolled it 4 times now and have multiple properties without paying any capital gains tax on the increase in value. Planning to sell again soon to buy more rental properties.

I also put money into a Roth IRA when I was young (back when the max contribution was $1000/yr) and continually added and rolled 401k’s into it when I left different companies that I worked for.

The first 9 of 10 years my wife was in school after we got married. She has more degrees than a thermometer. Lol. We lived very frugally doing those times and had very little school debt when she finally graduated with an DVM & MBA degrees. We have bought 2 different businesses and sold 1 so far.

The wealthiest people I know are business owners. The next wealthiest are landowners.

If she didn’t have a nasty habit of liking horses (read hayburners here….) we would have lots more free cash!

Real estate, stocks, business investing. Next goal is to buy into my current company as an owner. Sorry I didn’t get into crypto as I didn’t and still don’t understand it…

As a business owner - YOU are in control of your own schedule. Just make sure you have the right people around you when you aren’t there!

Anyway, JUST PAY ATTENTION and you will be better off than 90% of the population!!

 

[MountainTracker]

Not my fault they make it use or lose.

Yep, when my sup complains about being alone I just tell him to do a better job of using his leave. I had a decent amount of comp time also that I used for hunting.


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[eamyrick]

@huntnful appreciate you detailing the journey and giving an update. I understand the feeling it your chest asking for time off which seems ridiculous but I think that work ethic is what gets us into these positive spots where we can start making plans.

As I creep closer to punching out for good myself I have to be reminded that it’s just unusual because everyone else is living the usual way. Talked to a super nice dude today regarding a career change for himself in his late 30s and he has zero saved for retirement. I can’t imagine.