Tag: early retirement

Corporate Stockholm Syndrome

Post author By Sarah
Post date 2025-07-02
Categories In Community, Early retirement, Escaping corporate life, Household Finance
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Reflections In this final segment of my career, I’ve worked for “Mega Corp”, Fortune 100 behemoths. Prior to this stage, I worked for much smaller companies, mostly software firms with fewer than 1,000 employees. I had a very scary realization shortly after onboarding at Mega Corp 1 (which has been confirmed at Mega Corp 2): […]

I’m no stranger to risk, but early retirement is scary

Post author By Sarah
Post date 2025-06-18
Categories In Early retirement, Escaping corporate life
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Reflection I spent a lot of my 30s and 40s chasing mountain summits. I finished the Colorado 14ers, summited the “Roof of Africa” (Kilimanjaro), tackled my share of 5th-class technical rock and plenty of exposed 3rd- and 4th-class scrambles. I snow climbed steep couloirs, slicing my arm open with my ice-axe in spring conditions, bleeding […]

Keeping the Courage to Leap into What’s Next

Post author By Sarah
Post date 2025-06-16
Categories In Early retirement, ESCAPE, Escaping corporate life, Inspiration
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Reflections The tension between who I have to be at work and who I really am is just getting to be too much. It’s exhausting to be the high performer with the master’s degree and a quarter century of experience. I’m just not her anymore. In fact, I don’t want anything to do with her. […]