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Are you working to achieve Financial Independence or wondering what comes after you get there? Desert FI is the place to question your meaning. To wonder about your purpose. To discover what you want to do for the next chapter of your life.

Desert FI offers stories, life lessons, and questions to reflect on. The stories aren’t coming from someone writing from the other side. I’m still working a full-time job. Still navigating the tension between a well-paying career and the life I want to live in my next chapter. Even though I’ve reached Financial Independence.

This website explores the FINE Framework, an alternative to FIRE where after achieving Financial Independence, you continue working on your own terms. Your own schedule. Doing work you enjoy doing.

If you’re wondering why I’m still working a full time job after reaching Financial Independence, read I'm Not Leaving Yet — And Here's Why You Might Not Want to Either.

If you want an introduction to the FINE Framework, read How FI Led Me to FINE.

If you want the hard numbers supporting FINE, read The Harder Trail.

If you want to know how I got where I am, read The Moment I Realized the Life I Built Wasn’t the Life I Wanted.