Work Optional: Retire Sooner To Live Your Best Life [A Book Review]

If you’ve spent any time reading about personal finance lately, you’ve likely heard about the “FIRE” movement. FIRE means Financial Independence — Retire Early.

Suze Orman got headlines by announcing she hated the FIRE movement (but she changed her position a few weeks later.) While Clark Howard “FIRE’d” before it ever became a popular thing to do. (If you think “retire early” doesn’t pertain to you, I strongly urge you to keep reading!)

This book review is written by Vicki, co-founder of Women Who Money and Women’s Money Talk, and founder of Make Smarter Decisions.

Whether you agree with people who want to retire early in their 30’s or 40’s or not, it’s not hard to support the idea of becoming financially independent. Making work optional at some point so you can choose how to live your best life makes good sense.

Tanja Hester and her husband, Mark Bunje — left their careers behind to retire early (at ages 38 and 41) after reaching financial independence. Tanja’s new book, Work Optional — Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way teaches you how to get there too — no matter when you start or what age you’ll be when you leave work for the last time.

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