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Financial Independence, Otium, Retirement / By the author / December 15, 2019 November 14, 2020 / Leave a Comment

Since I started pursuing early retirement I have continued in my full time job, but with an ever increasing desire for financial freedom. So much so that I check my investment accounts more often than I should and regularly dream about a day where I can just do whatever I
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Otium

Financial Independence, Otium, Philosophy, Retirement / By the author / October 19, 2019 December 30, 2019 / Leave a Comment

As with many Latin words, otium has many modern day interpretations. Originating in language used by roman infantry to describe time ‘on leave’, it became to be roughly translated as leisure time, or time away from one’s daily public life (‘public life’ in this sense was typically used to describe
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