I’ll start this off with a standard intro:
My name is Marty, I’m 30 years old, originally from Michigan and possess a drifter’s soul. Currently my wife and I live in rural Alabama where I’m a project manager for a multinational paper company. That last part would be the nondescript “don’t sue me or fire me yet statement”.
I currently have a car, a house, a commuter truck, 2 dogs, a cat and $160,000 in debt between my vehicles, house, and brain. The majority is invested in my head from undergrad when I was stupid and took out a crap ton of student loans, and grad school, which made them not look quite as abnormal but they still suck. I start paying them at a rate of about $1,000 a month in June. That’s going to suck.
My intention for this blog is to be a treatise on how we are able to un-bury ourselves from that financial mess, quit our normal life and live the life of a vagabond like my soul has always desired. While there’s always the chance we win the lottery (if we bought tickets it would exponentially improve those odds), I’m guessing this will be a practical application of daily drudgery to make that big number dwindle.
Ultimately my wife and I would like to move to a small island in the south Caribbean. But first we have to hack the life we have to live the life we want.
We Quit Life 