If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that I’ve released an annual update every year since I quit my job .

It’s now been five years since I stopped working so this is my fifth (and final) annual update.

Mad Fientist: Hey what’s up everybody, it’s the Mad Fientist. Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast.

Sorry it’s been a while since my last episode but after being trapped in Scotland for 15 months because of the pandemic, I was finally able to make it back to the States and I just decided to take a few months off so I could focus on spending a lot of quality time with the family that I had been missing over the past year.

So since it’s been a while, I just have a short episode today to get back into the swing of things.

If you’ve listened to the show before you know that every year on my anniversary of leaving work I’ve posted either a podcast or an article about some of the things that I’ve learned over the past year and this is actually my fifth one so that means five years ago, on…