The Personal Finance Podcast - Why Barista FIRE Is the Coolest Strategy There Is (Retire Faster Than You Thought!)

Episode Date: September 15, 2021

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Starting point is 00:01:29 I'm your host, Andrew Founder of Master Money.com. And today, we're going to be talking about why barista fire is one of the coolest strategies out there. If you have any questions about this episode, hit me up on Instagram. at Master Money Code. That's Master Money CEO. And follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or whatever podcast player you love listening to this podcast to. And if you want to help out the show, leave a five-star rating and review on Apple Podcast.
Starting point is 00:02:01 And if you like video, we just launched a YouTube channel. So you can check out all of our videos. We're going to be releasing one to two videos a week over at Master Money on YouTube. I'll leave a link to it in the show notes so that you can check that out. as well. So today, we're going to play a little game called, Let's Blow Your Mind, because Barista Fire is by far one of the coolest strategies out there. And you may have heard me talk about Barista Fire in past Financial Independence episodes. But what I wanted to do was dedicate an entire episode to Barista Fire because it is so amazing for people who want to
Starting point is 00:02:37 retire. It's absolutely a fantastic strategy. And Barista Fire is actually a pretty simple idea, but it can be truly life-changing because it's a way to hack the fire system that people just don't think about. So today I'm going to show you that if you hate your job, you don't have to work forever. There's a way around having to work forever.
Starting point is 00:02:57 And you may be saying to yourself, well, this guy's going to try to turn me into a frugal weirdo where I bike around town all day and only eat rice and beans. That's absolutely not the case. What I'm going to show you today is exactly how you can do the opposite and have a life that is fulfilling
Starting point is 00:03:11 and a life that you actually want. So the answer to that question is no, unless rice and beans is your favorite meal. But instead, what I'm going to show you is how to retire on your own terms and way earlier than you ever thought. Now, before we dive in, I just want to talk about the fire movement because if you're unfamiliar with what the fire movement is, this is an extremely important thing to understand. So what the fire movement is, it means financial independence retire early. And the true purpose of the fire movement is so that you can accumulate enough wealth to break
Starting point is 00:03:38 you away from a job that you hate and pursue your passions. So the purpose of it is to literally retire early. Now most people think retirement age is when I can hit Social Security. That's when I'm going to be able to retire. But the fire movement is a hack. It's a financial hack that allows you to actually retire much earlier than you think you can. It breaks you free from the office or the cubicle that you hate. That's the amazing thing.
Starting point is 00:04:04 And financial independence is truly life changing. It'll change your life forever because it allows you to live your own life on your terms. Now for most people, traditional fire, which is the good old-fashioned, become really frugal and save up enough money to retire early, is too frugal for most people. Most people don't want to live off rice and beans or they don't want to live extremely frugal or what is in their mind extremely frugal. In my mind, it's not that bad. But most people struggle with the frugality side of it. And that's why on this podcast, we always talk about spending your money on things that bring you value. Because once that light bulb goes off, you're going to be able to put your money.
Starting point is 00:04:41 exactly where you want it to go. So what we want to do is create flexibility for you. We want to create as much flexibility for you and your money. That's the purpose of actually constructing and building wealth is so that you have flexibility in your life. You have flexibility with your finances and you have the ability to go out and do exactly what you want with your money. That is the name of the game here. So we're going to talk about what you enjoy in the future here, but freedom is the name of this game. And I'm here to teach each and every one of you how to pursue freedom, how to pursue freedom, how to build wealth for your family, for generations to come. That's what we're all building wealth here to do.
Starting point is 00:05:16 And that's why the fire movement is so important. And it's so incredibly amazing to go after it. Now, a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions about the fire movement, and a lot of it's concerning frugality and how you have to live. But you don't have to live that way. And if you listen to this podcast for any amount of time, you know I talk about that all the time. Spend lavishly on the things that you love and cut mercilessly on the things that you don't love.
Starting point is 00:05:37 That's how you spend your money. That's how you build wealth. It's cut out the stuff you don't love, cut it completely out, and spend lavishly on the things that you love. So we're here to learn exactly how to pursue freedom. We're here to learn exactly how to build wealth so that we're free from the job that we hate. So we don't have to work at a job that we hate anymore, that we have the ability to actually break free from that cubicle, break free from that office we don't like, break free from
Starting point is 00:06:03 the job that gives us stress and anxiety, break free exactly at the time we want to break free from it because we have the power to do that and move on with our lives and pursue work that is fulfilling and pursue work that actually makes us happy. If you're into that, let's get into it. So what is barista fire? You've heard me talk about fire. What is barista fire? Why is it so amazing? Why is it so valuable for you to learn this in your life? And why is it so important to spread this message to people who do not like their job? Because barista fire truly is centered around people who do not like their job. And unfortunately, studies have shown, that only 20% of people actually are passionate about their job.
Starting point is 00:06:43 That's an extremely low number. So 80% of people would benefit from this strategy. Now, if you're passionate about your job, then you can pursue other forms of fire. You could build tremendous wealth by working for a long period of time, millions and millions of dollars just by small amounts of money invested over a long period of time. And we've talked about that in past episodes.
Starting point is 00:07:00 I'll link some of them in the show notes. But if you love your job, then it's worth it for you to work for a long period of time and start accumulating money. We also have videos on the YouTube channel that are coming out this week, this very week talking about that. So make sure you subscribe to see that. But barista fire helps you break free from a job that you do not love. And I mean love.
Starting point is 00:07:18 I mean, every day you go into work and you're excited to go into work. Not every day your job's okay and you're just okay with your job. I mean, every single day you wake up and you're excited to go into work. Then barista fire is not for you. If you don't absolutely love your job, then it's perfect for you. And the way it works is by saving enough money to cover part of your business. your yearly expenses. Traditional fire, you cover all your yearly expenses and then you go ahead and retire. But in barista fire, you cover part of your yearly expenses and then you cover the rest of it
Starting point is 00:07:47 surrounding something that you love or surrounding your passion. So with traditional fire, for example, if you spend $40,000 a year, then you would have to save $1 million and that's based on the 4% rule, which we have an episode on that. I'll leave a link to doing the show notes as well. But that's your traditional fire number. In barista fire, it could be very different. where you could save up enough money to live off, say, $30,000 a year, and then make up that extra $10,000 surrounding something you love. And it got its name because traditionally people would go work at a place like Starbucks that gave you traditional health insurance or something like that, so barista fire was born.
Starting point is 00:08:24 But you can do this, and the best way to do this is surrounding your passion, and I'll explain that here in a second. So let me give you an example. So for example, suppose Lisa spends $40,000 a year and wants to be financially into pennant by accumulating $1 million. So every million dollars that you save up, you can spend $40,000 a year, and that's based on the 4% rule that we just talked about. And if you assume that she spends $80,000 a year after taxes, that means that she
Starting point is 00:08:49 can invest about $40,000 a year. If she started doing this by the age of 25, she'd be able to hit $1 million by the age of $41. And that's with a 7% rate of return. If you increase the rate of return to what it's been as of late, up to 8, 9, 10%, then she could retire much faster than that. But what if she could retire even sooner because she doesn't like her job? You know, if she happens to work on a job she loves, then fine.
Starting point is 00:09:12 But if she doesn't, what if she could retire much sooner than that? So if she falls among the 80% of individuals who hate their job, then she may want to transition by doing something else, by doing something else that actually brings her passion. So, for example, if she wanted to use barris to fire, at this rate, if she wanted to retire at 32, she'd have about $400,000 saved up and invested. Well, with $400,000, you could draw down 4%.
Starting point is 00:09:35 so she could draw down $16,000 a year. Then she would just need to generate another $24,000 a year to actually be able to retire to reach that $40,000. Or if she waits until the age of $34 to quit, then she would have a portfolio of $528,000. And then she could withdraw 4% of her portfolio, and that would cover about $21,000 a year of her expenses. And she would just need to earn $19,000 a year to cover her expenses.
Starting point is 00:10:02 So you see the options here because you can work for a longer period of time and it allows you to accumulate more wealth just a couple of years and at the same time you don't have to work as much later on. Obviously, the longer you stay at your job, the more wealth you're going to accumulate. But if you absolutely hate your job,
Starting point is 00:10:17 then sometimes the earlier, the better just for your mental health and your anxiety. See, if your job makes you anxious or it makes you completely stress, this is perfect for you. This is the absolute best strategy for you. Because what you can do is take a less stressful job surrounding something you're passionate.
Starting point is 00:10:33 We'll get into options on what you could be passionate about in a second. And then go ahead and quit your job, live off the wealth you have accumulated thus far, and then make up the difference by working at a simpler job and having a simpler life. And by doing this, even if you work part-time, you can work part-time and make that kind of money. So if you work part-time and made that type of money $19,000 a year, now you're not working every single day. So it's a less stressful job and you're not working every single day to cover your expenses. You just have to be disciplined up front to accumulate the wealth and allow
Starting point is 00:11:06 yourself to actually build up that wealth so you can start that nest egg and then have a much better life. So now that you kind of understand with that example what barista fire is, let's talk about how to calculate your barista fire number. I remember when I needed to hire someone fast, but finding the right person quickly felt impossible. And if you've ever been there, you know how stressful this can be. That's where indeed comes in. When it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Instead of struggling to get your job post noticed, Indeed's sponsor jobs help you stand out and hire faster. Your post jumps up to the top of the page, making sure it reaches the right candidates. And it makes a huge difference. Sponsored jobs on Indeed
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Starting point is 00:14:39 So you have your goal in place so that you can chase after it and understand how long is this actually going to take me? So there's a couple questions you want to ask yourself before you calculate this number is the first one is, are you going to pay off your house? Are you going to have a mortgage or rent or anything like that? Are you going to pay it off and have no mortgage? That's one question you want to ask yourself because without the mortgage, obviously you have more flexibility. but with the mortgage, you can invest more money and retire sooner. So there's give and take there. Obviously, mathematically, it's better to invest the money.
Starting point is 00:15:06 But if you sleep better at night knowing you don't have a corporate job and you're working this part-time gig, but you have no mortgage, then go for it. Personal finance is extremely personal. Go for it. Do what you think you need to do. The second question is, how will you plan for health care costs? Because some of these barista fire jobs that I'm going to talk about, they don't offer you health care.
Starting point is 00:15:25 So your health care costs could rise for health care. health insurance or things like that. And the third question is, do you have dependents? How are you going to handle that? Are you taking care of aging parents? Do you have kids? Do you have other people in the house? Those are the questions you want to ask yourself as you calculate this number because
Starting point is 00:15:41 you want to make sure you encompass everybody who's going to be living with you. So here's how to calculate your barista fire number in five steps. Number one, you're going to input your yearly expenses. So you're going to figure out how much you spend every single year and add everything from at every fixed expense, whether it's health insurance, it's your groceries, it's everything you spend every single year. Figure out what that number is and add it up. This is the pro to having a budget because having a budget gives you these numbers instantly. Otherwise, you're going to have to add this up and take the time 30, 45 minutes to figure out exactly how much you spend every
Starting point is 00:16:12 single year. Now, you're going to calculate your traditional fire number, number two. So every million dollars, you can draw down $40,000. Just keep that in your head. So if you have half a million you can draw down $20,000. If you have $250,000, you can draw down $10,000 a year. So figure out what that number is. If you spend $80,000 a year, then your number is $2 million. If you spend $60,000 a year, your number is $1.5 million. If you spend $40,000 a year, your number is $1 million.
Starting point is 00:16:45 But figure out what your actual traditional fire number is, and then move on to the third step. The third step is to estimate your salary from your part-time job. So if you're going to go out and get a part-time job, how much do you think you're going to make? And we'll talk about the part-time jobs in a second here. But how much do you think you can make from your part-time job that you have in your mind? Is it, are you going to be a barista? Are you going to go out and do something else around your passion? But think through that, how much do you think you could actually make?
Starting point is 00:17:09 Are you going to build a side hustle? That's the other option about having a side hustle is that it's a way to make additional income on your own terms and have barista fire in place so that you can actually live off that money as well. So if your part-time job is, say, $10,000, then the next step, number four, is you're going to subtract your yearly expenses minus your part-time salary. So if your yearly expenses are $60,000 and your part-time salary is $20,000, then you need to come up with $1 million so you can live off $40,000 and then have that part-time salary of the $20,000. So how soon can you do that? Then number five, your barista fire number is just equal to 25 times your annual spending. minus your supplemental income or your part-time income.
Starting point is 00:17:55 So, for example, if your annual expenses are $40,000 and your part-time job salary is $30,000, then you're going to take your fire number 25 times yearly expenses. So 25 times $40,000 would be $1 million. And if you save that money up aggressively, then you can get to that point and retire early. Now, what we want to do next is I want to get into a bunch of barista fire ideas. I'm just going to fire off ideas for you guys. And if you hear something you like, think about what you could do surrounding that. Because what I'm going to do is list off a bunch of different hobbies and things like that.
Starting point is 00:18:26 And we can talk through this or ideas that just kind of ignite a fire in your gut that make that sound really good to you. Think through some of these and come up with five options and then narrow them down after that. So let's get into the barista fire ideas. All right. So I'm going to rattle off a bunch of barista fire ideas just so you guys can think through this and ask yourself, would this be something I want to do? My favorite one is to while you're working to build a side hustle. Now we talk about side hustles all the time in this podcast. Reason being is that you want to increase your income as much as possible so that you can
Starting point is 00:18:59 invest as much money as possible. So you can retire as fast as possible. The more income you make, the more that you can increase the amount that you're investing, the faster you're going to be able to reach this goal. So building a side hustle while you're working will actually allow you to reach barista fire that much faster and already have a gig in place when you reach barista fire. So think about side hustles. surrounding what you like, something that you're passionate about,
Starting point is 00:19:21 because at the beginning a lot of time, side hustles don't make money. So think about one that you're passionate about. Go after it and start one today. That's your challenge. Start one today because having a side hustle is so important, it's so dangerous to have one stream of income or two streams of income. Having a side hustle is the best way to go here. Okay?
Starting point is 00:19:39 Now, let's rattle off some ideas. For example, if you love hiking, what if you went out and became a hiking guide? You had guided tours and a place that you love to travel to. You could do that literally as your full-time job where you're hiking all day long. Or what if you love fishing? You can become a fishing guide.
Starting point is 00:19:55 And you could literally be out in the water all day long, teaching people how to fish, helping them with their reels, helping them catch amazing fish. If you love deep sea fishing, you could be deep sea fishing guide. If you love skinny water culture or shallow water fishing, you could do that as well.
Starting point is 00:20:09 If you love freshwater fishing, you'd be a bass guide. All of these different options are fantastic for that. And what if you were an art instructor? You loved to paint. You loved art. and you became an instructor, teaching people how to paint all day long. Wouldn't that be more fulfilling for someone who is obsessed with art than being an accountant sitting in the middle of a cubicle at a corporate company?
Starting point is 00:20:27 Or if you love helping out kids, you can become a tutor if you're really good at teaching kids what to do. If you're a teacher and you want to pursue barista fire, then you can surround by something and making your own hours as a tutor, because tutors make a lot more money per hour than a teacher does. Or one of my first side hustles was a seasonal gig, where I would make a lot of money all in one month. And what I did was I had a Christmas tree stand. Yes, one of those Christmas tree stands on the side of the road. I had one of those. My wife and I had one of those. And that was our seasonal gig.
Starting point is 00:20:56 And you'd make a bunch of money all in one month. So all you'd have to do in the barista fire is if you wanted to make $20,000, figure out how many trees do I have to sell to make this $20,000? And if it doesn't work out, I'll just go ahead and get a job. But it's only one month of work per year that I would have to do that. You could do that surrounding Valentine's Day for flowers. You could do that surrounding Easter time for flowers. You could do that surrounding Halloween for pumpkins.
Starting point is 00:21:17 All these different things that you could do where there's seasonal gigs out there where you're only working a couple of weeks at a time and making a significant portion of income. If you love coffee, then do what the name tells you. Become a barista. Love golf? Why don't you work at a golf course?
Starting point is 00:21:31 Maintaining grounds, getting to play golf or become a golf instructor. If you love wine, what if you worked in a winery where they make wine or you could talk to people about wine all day and you could go through that process or work at a wine shop that specializes in fine wines? There's all these different options. not that. If you love beer, why don't you go work at a brewery? Everybody's got a local brewery now. Everyone's got 25 breweries in their town probably. It's way over saturated. Why don't you go work
Starting point is 00:21:53 at a brewery? Because people who love beer are extremely passionate about craft beer. So you could go work at a brewery and do that all day long. What if you will have cars? You can go work at a classic car shop or work at a mechanic shop around your interest. Or if you love tech, while you're working, start a tech blogger, start a YouTube channel talking about tech. There's so many examples. of people who make a tremendous amount of money that just started with a side hustle talking about tech. The tech blogs, they make affiliate income off tech. Or if you look at all the YouTubers who talk about tech,
Starting point is 00:22:24 which it's very oversaturated at the same time, if you're passionate about it, you do it for a couple of years, you're gonna be fine and you're gonna make money. Love animals? Why don't you work at a rescue center or a zoo that actually has to pay some of their folks? Or if you love horses, work at a stable. Love working out, why don't you become a trainer or a coach? Or you can train people online as well.
Starting point is 00:22:44 and you can start a YouTube channel surrounding that. Love helping others? Get a job at a nonprofit. There's plenty of nonprofits out there that have to pay people because working on a nonprofit is not a free thing. A lot of nonprofit CEOs make a tremendous amount of money, which is absolutely wrong in my eyes. But nonprofits have to hire employees full time.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Otherwise, they would have nobody to be able to help them out. Love sports? Get a part-time job with your local team. Maybe you love your local NFL team. What if you worked as a security guard? Or you worked in concessions? Or you worked on the media team helping them out with their social media. or all these various things.
Starting point is 00:23:16 If you love gardening, why don't you go work at a nursery or a gardening center? Or why don't you go teach gardening classes? If you love gardening, all you want to do is get your hands in more dirt. Why don't you go and do that? That's another option. If you love woodworking, why don't you either teach woodworking or go work at those local shops? There's so many local woodworking shops that do amazing things. They do amazing benches or furniture or couches or all different types of things.
Starting point is 00:23:38 You can go do that part-time. Love the beach? Become a lifeguard. You want to be David Hasselhoff? and run down the beach in slow motion, become a lifeguard if you love the beach. If you love to dive, become a diving instructor.
Starting point is 00:23:49 Love shopping. Go work at your favorite store. I'm sure you guys are getting the picture here because you can think about what your hobby is. You can think of what can I surround myself with so I can do this more often. And yeah, some of it's a job. Like if you're working at a golf course,
Starting point is 00:24:03 for example, and you have to cut grass or something like that, yeah, it's a job. But at the same time, would you rather be in the outdoors surrounded by the game that you love? Or would you rather be sitting in the middle of a cubicle typing away looking at spreadsheets. Which one do you want to do?
Starting point is 00:24:18 I can go on for days with these ideas. But at the same time, you have to think about what am I passionate about, what do I love, and how can I surround myself with a job that would work for this? This is why barista fire is so cool
Starting point is 00:24:30 because if you love something, if you're passionate about something, and I know each and every one of you are, at least something out there is your passion, then look for something to surround yourself with your passions. And listen, if you could start a side hustle now while you're working at the job that you don't like at your nights and weekends or something
Starting point is 00:24:45 like that, then you can actually build a business around your time. But if you're not willing to do that or you just truly can't do that, then figure out a way to look for a job and get certifications ahead of time or whatever you have to do so that you can have this part-time job later on in life. Now two other things to consider here before we wrap this up is you got to strike a balance between sticking it out at your job and building a portfolio so that you can leave sooner in freedom. So if you don't like your job, you still have to get good at your job. The reason why is you want to get those raises, you want to increase your income, you want to be able to actually pursue financial independence much faster. Otherwise, if you're not working hard at your job and
Starting point is 00:25:25 you don't start to get those raises, then you don't have the opportunity that other people would have because you're not increasing your income, because you're just being lazy. You have to work hard every single day. Never forget that. You've got to work hard every single day. Even if you don't like it. You know why? Because you're going to get that raise. And if your job doesn't give you that raise, then move on to another company that will pay you that raise. We've had episodes on how to ask for a raise on this podcast. We've had multiple, multiple episodes on how to ask for a raise. I'll leave a link to them in the show notes as well. The second thing to consider is if you want to achieve complete financial independence, at some point, you have to make more money than just
Starting point is 00:26:00 your barista-style gig. Or your barista-style gig has to make you just a little bit more so you can continue to invest that money over time. Otherwise, you're going to be working part-time for the rest of your life, and you don't want to do that. You've got to do the math here. So the key here is that you want to increase the amount that you're making, maybe make a little bit more than you think you need to. That way, maybe you're just making three grand extra a year. That way you're investing that three grand, and over the course of 10, 15, 20 years,
Starting point is 00:26:23 that three grand invested every single year is going to make a big difference. So just think through that a little bit because you want to make sure that you're still working to make up your part-time job income. And that's barista fire. And if you've never thought about this, I hope that got you thinking.
Starting point is 00:26:38 I hope that got you understanding the possibilities that are out there with the fire movement. And if you have any questions about this episode, hit me up on Instagram at Master Money Co. And follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or whatever podcast player you love listening to this podcast. And if you want to help out the show, leave a five-star rating and review on Apple Podcast. Thank you so much to so many of you are leaving five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. I can't thank you guys enough for that. It truly does help out the show.
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