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Hi Karena! Thank you so much for stopping by. Your kind words really made my day! 🙂 You’re so inspirational and so brave as well to have quit your corporate job to start working for yourself. 12 years is exceptional, you should be proud of yourself for building a successful business. One day, I’d want to be like you and work for myself for the rest of my life 🙂 And like you, I’d work hard and tell myself that I don’t want to go back to a corporate job. I think that’s fantastic motivation to get through the tough days!

Thank you so much! Yeah, I see these posts on your blog too and I really enjoy them as well. It’s so interesting to see the little details of the life of someone else 🙂 My end goal? To save up enough so that my dividend income can cover a chunk of my expenses, allowing me to quit my job haha!

About my side hustle, it definitely feels good to be able to cover almost all my expenses with it. But I have to admit that it makes my schedule extremely hectic. To the point where I’m feeling more and more burnt out. So while I’m earning a good chunk of change, I can’t keep going at this pace forever.

Definitely try extreme frugality for a year. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing over the past year, and it’s been working fantastically. I’ve found that it’s working well for me, I feel better than ever, and I’m going to continue doing this 🙂

I don’t really have a budget, or a number, or anything like that. I just spend based on what I need, and I need very little. Some months I’m a little impulsive and spend more, and some months I’m super frugal and spend less. Over time, I’ve realised that I’m perfectly comfortable spending only about $1,000 a month, so I try to be consistent with this.

Agreed man, Mondays suck big time!

I love that your side hustle pretty much can fund your life right now. That has to feel good! I think I might try some extreme frugality for a year…just to have my big pay check go straight to savings…that’d be pretty awesome!

How did you decide on the number you were going to live off of? Mondays are the worst! i don’t hate my job though…i just don’t like working. period.

Thanks so much for your encouragement, Dragon Gal! I seem to be really harping on the best things in life being free, huh? 🙂 I love what you said about being an introvert and saving so much money because of that – I feel the EXACT same way! I know many of my friends and colleagues love going out for dinners and shopping sprees. But I just love staying home most of the time to read, write, watch YouTube or Netflix, or just chill. I honestly DON’T have the physical and emotional strength to go out more than a couple times a week! (Hard-core introvert here!) To be honest, I think that’s why I’m saving so much money! You’re definitely right about this 🙂

APL, thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed this post. I love seeing “a day in the life” of other people as well, so I decided to write one myself 🙂 Yeah I hate that we have to wait for the whole month before receiving our paychecks, so it’s like “I have to stay up!” Cheap thrills!

I think it’s important that you schedule some serious down time though. I’m like a hardcore introvert, so that means working and socialising tires me out more than most. I used to go out after work, but would find myself super grumpy around my friends, which is terrible. And I don’t even work as hard as you! Can’t imagine what would happen to my mood if I had your crazy hours. I hope things improve over the next few weeks, and remember to recharge! 🙂