Tag: Passive Income

(Very) Belated Passive Income Update

It’s been a while since my last post, with fewer than promised (in fact none) updates on anything be it passive income, 3d printing, or games. Sadly the reason for my lack of posts is not because I miraculously started making massive piles of passive cash and decided to retire. It is far more mundane – the work life balance tipped in favour of work for the first time in a while and work deadlines beckoned with more urgency than the more interesting things, like the pursuit of the passive, or any other form of hobby or interest. Add to this the lockdown whilst working a day job and educating kids… free time has not just a rarity, more of a myth of distant times long forgotten!

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The Great Passive Income Experiment

There is a lot of information floating about these days about FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), side gigs, passive income streams etc. The consensus seems to be that in order to achieve either part of FIRE if you don’t have a significant income it needs to be supplemented by an alternative stream such as a method of passive income. While there is a lot of information about methods to generate passive income, there seems to be little information on how easy (or not) some of these income streams are to implement, how much effort is required to maintain them, how much income they generate for the average person, and how quickly the cash comes rolling in.

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Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How

What…is this website?

It is (or will be) a collection of general things that are important to me at the moment. Primarily it will be a blog documenting my financial aspirations approaching my middle years, the theoretical peak of my career, looking at my life approaching middle age, the decisions I have made, my plans for the future, and the things I do and enjoy to keep me sane.

Who….is the person behind the blog?

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