My favorite podcaster in this vein is Paula Pant (Afford Anything), who is intellectually honest in that she's not really "retired" so much as not working a job she doesn't enjoy.

I work to build homes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

It will be interesting to plug in the data from the past three years, see how bungalows crowded the $300k level but didn't break it, and compare that to prices for the next two years and see if appreciation rates take off.No, I'm not in the market down there, so it's just an intellectual exercise for me.

If they don't answer my questions, I know they have not read the ad and are just clicking and "tire kicking" or they lack the intellectual focus for me to have any business relationship with them.

@kuba F Intellectual honesty says that if you have to pay for something then it is not free.

My goal is to generate multiple streams of non-correlated income: some of it from global dividend-paying companies, some of it from local rental properties, and some of it from savings accounts and bonds (and in a prior life, some of it from royalties on intellectual property such as books I tried to write).

The REALTOR® forms are setup to work with the rest of the forms in the REALTOR® set, so you typically don't want to mix and match the forms from other sets (firsttuesday, uslegalforms).You may have a hard time finding a flat fee real estate agent that will give you the blank California Association of Realtors ("CAR") forms, as it's a violation of CAR intellectual property / terms of use, and the end user agreement of their software provider.  

If you're not getting what you want out of a deal, take your ball and go home.The "intellectual me" reads Veblen.The "Down and Dirty" me listens to FrankDebbie, fight this scumbag with all you've got.

But for me, most academia-based jobs are pretty equally dry and boring even if they're intellectually stimulating but they're tolerable especially if I'll know that they're only temporary.

Hey mate,Congratulations on your success.Great thread :)Just turned 32 a few months ago myself.I'm still not the person that I want to be.I've achieved more financial/business success than I ever dreamed of before the age of 30 but quickly realized that that is not what this thing called life is all about.I'm on a different path now.I have a heavy focus on growing spiritually, physically and intellectually every day.My mission is to find an endless journey without a destination that brings joy, satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness on a daily basis.Don't think that I'm F@#%ing going soft because that's not the case hahahaJust happy to have realized what I have at this age.I believe that I'll be in my prime from 35+.Maybe even 40+Grazie mille