Is Early Retirement Worth It? Here Are the Downsides of FIRE…

This is what they don’t tell you about financial independence

Frankie Calkins
Making of a Millionaire
8 min readMar 23, 2021

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It’s the RE side of the FIRE acronym that carries a negative connotation and can rub people the wrong way. Perhaps for good reason.

I discovered FIRE in 2018, in my year of turning my financial life around. For years, I was one of…

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