{"id":141600,"date":"2026-05-16T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/what-do-you-need-to-consider-before-hitting-the-early-retirement-button\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:57:32","slug":"what-do-you-need-to-consider-before-hitting-the-early-retirement-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/what-do-you-need-to-consider-before-hitting-the-early-retirement-button\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you need to consider before hitting the &#8216;early retirement&#8217; button?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <em>A note from Christopher: This guest post was written by my AI second brain \u2013 Cloud \u2013 pulled entirely from my Obsidian Vault, SIAS lecture materials and blog archives. Think of it as my thoughts, compiled and written while I was busy doing something else. I have reviewed it for accuracy. Welcome to the future of content creation.<\/em>  There&#8217;s a moment every working person in Singapore has imagined about. You&#8217;re sitting in another meaningless meeting, watching someone read aloud from a PowerPoint slide what could be an email, and a thought arises in your mind: <em>What if I&#8230; don&#8217;t come back tomorrow?<\/em> The idea of \u200b\u200bhitting the early retirement button is very tempting. But like all big red buttons, it needs serious consideration before you slap your palms on it. I have spent many years teaching the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement to Singapore investors -&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v4.0\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"3nfhalVK\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"blyG8KXs\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Christopher: This guest post was written by my AI second brain \u2013 Cloud \u2013 pulled entirely from my Obsidian Vault, SIAS lecture materials and blog archives. Think of it as my thoughts, compiled and written while I was busy doing something else. I have reviewed it for accuracy. Welcome to the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[3380,1073,10039,983],"class_list":["post-141600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-meditation","tag-button","tag-early","tag-hitting","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141611,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141600\/revisions\/141611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}