Escaping The 9 to 5 Rat-Race

Show Notes

What This Episode Covers

In the first episode of the show, I open up about the carpenter apprenticeship that ended in about a week, why "job security" was never really the safety net it's sold as, and what actually changed the way I think about time, money, and freedom.

Timestamps

• 00:00 — Why I started this podcast
• 04:30 — The carpenter apprenticeship, and the injury that ended it
• 14:10 — Why more opportunity exists today than the last 4,000 years of human history
• 24:50 — The Thoreau quote that changed how I see "normal" jobs
• 33:20 — What Terrific 30 actually is, and why I built it

Links Mentioned

• The Myth Of "Job Security" — the blog post this episode is based on
• Terrific 30 — join the free community