Diary of a future rentier (40)

There's no denying it... it's not easy every day. In the life of a worker, there are cyclical periods of intense stress that come and go. When they're behind us, we have an unfortunate tendency to forget and minimize them, but when they come back we wonder how we managed to hold out the last time.

Although I have put up several safeguards over time, I still can't avoid these bad moments, or at least minimize the impact they have on me. I've changed jobs, tried to set some boundaries, and learned to cope better with stress... but it seems that the world of work always manages to insidiously find a new flaw in my protective system.

Yet I have everything I need to do well. My path to financial independence is already well advanced and it should allow me to easily put the concerns of the working world into perspective. I know that I can generate income passively, without even having to get up in the morning. So I shouldn't worry so much about what happens at my employer.

But I do it. Not all the time, of course, but I do it anyway. And when it happens, it rots my life, it eats me up inside, it harms my social relationships, and even my health.

This really needs to change. I can't continue to waste my best years like this on an employer, no matter how good.

I have already done everything I can to manage this stress as best I can. But after a while, no matter how hard you fight and protect yourself, if you don't fight on equal terms, you don't stand a chance. The only way out is to leave the professional world, upon reaching thefinancial independence.

According to my calculations at the time, I still needed about ten years to do it. But I'm not going to be able to hold out for that long. I'm going to have to speed up the movement, and there are not 36 solutions to do it:

• Either I increase the performance, already quite good, of my investments. For this I have an idea that I am testing. If the tests are conclusive, I will of course share them with all my members.
• Either I increase my savings capacity, which is also quite high. For this, there is really no other choice than to apply radical methods.

The best thing is of course to do both at the same time. And that's what I'm going to do in the near future... just to get out of the Rat Race.