[mattmanser]

How is being self employed retired? Is this a new meaning of the word retired that I have not heard of?

He notes on his 'start' page that a mere 1 in 9 Americans are self employed like him. Only a few 10s of millions of people then?

I think your office of national statistics would disagree with you buddy, you're a handyman, your wife's a realtor. You're not retired.

What a plonker.

[garethsprice]

"How is being self employed retired? Is this a new meaning of the word retired that I have not heard of?"

Raises an interesting question about whether working in a hobby business is "retirement".

If the author works solely in the hobby business for his own pleasure and could live indefinitely if he shut up shop tomorrow then he is arguably retired. Plenty of retired people still do some measure of work for the sole reason of having something enjoyable to do with their time.

Also, LOL at the advice essentially being "Participate in the hottest job and stock market in history and get out at the right time". Living cheap and making investments is sound advice, but anyone who made their fortune in the late 90s was more lucky timing than prescience.

[AJ007]

No one would have read the story if its title was "How I became self employed in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary"

HN needs some sort of false title penalty.

[jpdoctor]

My reaction exactly.

I'd also add: Landlords earn every penny that they collect.

[blago]

"How is being self employed retired? Is this a new meaning of the word retired that I have not heard of?"

It is the meaning that describes a person who'd saved enough so he doesn't have to work for the rest of their life. What he does for fun is irrelevant. Even if it happens to be "work".